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The land has been conquered and reconquered over the last hundreds of years. "Between 3000 and 1100 B.C., Canaanite civilization covered what is today Israel, the West Bank, Lebanon and much of Syria and Jordan Those who remained in the Jerusalem hills after the Romans expelled the Jews [in the second century A.D.] were a potpourri: farmers and vineyard growers, pagans, and converts to Christianity, descendents of the Arabs, Persians, Samaritans, Greeks, and old Canaanite tribes."(5) .
According to the BBC timeline (4) in 1250 BC the Israelites began to conquer and settle the land of Canaan on the eastern Mediterranean coast. From 961-922 BC King Solomon ruled the land and constructed the Temple in Jerusalem. Solomon's reign was followed by the division of land into two kingdoms. Then, in 586 BC, the southern kingdom, Judah, was conquered by the Babylonians, who drove its people, the Jews, into exile and destroyed Solomon's Temple. After 70 years, the Jews began to return and Jerusalem and the temple were gradually rebuilt. During what's now known as the Classical period, from about 333 BC until about 638 AD the Romans controlled the area, persecuted the Jews who were allowed to return and after a few failed revolts by the .
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Jewish people, the second temple and surrounding cities, such as Judea, were destroyed and the Jews were banished and sold into slavery. .
Then in 638 AD, the Arab Muslims conquered the area, ending Roman rule, and Omar, second caliph of Islam built a mosque at the site of what is now the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the 8th century.(4) "The land became known to the Islamic world as it's Arabic name Filastin. In 1516, Palestine became a province of the Ottoman Empire." (5) Apart from the age of the Crusaders (1099-1187), the region remained under Muslim rule until the fall of the Turkish Ottoman Empire in the 20th century.
