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| What did Romans do to celebrate their religious beliefs? |
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| Held many festivals in honor of their gods |
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| What did Romans do to avoid offending any gods? |
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| They prayed to a wide range of gods and goddesses |
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| Where were many of the most popular gods in the Roman Empire adopted from? |
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| People the Romans conquered |
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| Name some of the ancient people Romans adopted their gods from. |
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| Greeks, Egyptians, Gauls, and Persians |
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| When was the only time the Romans banned a religion? |
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| When the rulers of Rome considered it a political problem |
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| Name a religion that Roman leaders considered a political problem? |
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| What two reasons did the Roman leaders consider Judaism to be a problem? |
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| How many gods did the Jews believe in? |
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| Why were Jews unhappy with Roman Rule? |
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| They wanted to be ruled only by Jews, not outsiders |
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| What happened in the AD 60s? |
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| Jews rebelled against the Romans |
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| What happened in the early 100s? |
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| What happened as a result to the second rebellion by the Jews? |
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| Hadrian banned the practice of certain Jewish rituals |
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| What did Hadrian hope would happen by banning Jewish rituals? Was he right? |
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| That they would give up Judaism. No |
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| How did Hadrian end the Jewish rebellion once and for all? |
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| He crushed the Jews revolt, destroyed the Jewish capital, and forced all Jews to leave the city |
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| What religion appeared in Judea before the first Jewish rebellion against the Romans? What was it based on? |
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| Christianity. It was based on the life and teaching of Jesus of Nazareth |
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| The largest group of Jews in Judea was strict in obeying the laws of who? |
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| Why did these Jews follow the laws so closely? |
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| Because Jewish prophets had said that a new leader would appear among the Jews |
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| Who did the Jews believe would be chosen by God to lead them? |
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| Who was the most famous prophet that announced the Messiah was coming? |
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