I'm back at @ForeignPolicy writing about the task of training auxiliaries, comparing American failures with Roman successes.https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/10/03/us-military-auxiliary-armies-afghanistan-rome/ …
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So, Roman Judaea. In 4AD, the Romans backed the wrong puppet and triggered a revolt and had to crack down violently. Then in 36AD Pilate (that one) the equestrian prefect turned a religious gathering into a massacre at Mt. Gerizim, in part because he didn't get their religion.
That got Pilate sacked. Then in 37, Caligula nearly triggered a civil war and only avoided it because his governor slow-rolled the implementation. Then in 66AD, the Romans did end up with a major revolt which went until 70 AD.
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Order is restored by Vespasian. Josephus discusses the various provocations, including the Roman procurator pillaging the temple over back taxes, which caused it. The Roman crackdown was brutal and damaging to the province.
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Peace lasted only 62 years; in 132 the province rose up in revolt again, in part because of the plan to build a Roman temple on the temple mount. Another Roman crackdown followed, resulting in Jerusalem being replaced by a Roman colony (Aelia Capitolina)
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