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2.   Jerusalem was originally a village by the name of Salem, inhabited by the ancestors of the Palestinians, the Canaanites.  Then a Canaanite king turned the village into a city, and built a city and with it, a Temple. It became a Jebusite city. Origin-Salem

3.   1000 BC-The Jebusites were absorbed into the Jewish people. King David made Jerusalem the capital of his kingdom  Later, another king, Solomon, built the first Temple to house the Ark of the Covenant Early Establishment

4.   586 BC, the Babylonian Nebuchadnezzar II invaded and destroyed Jerusalem and the Temple at the heart of the city and exiled the inhabitants to Babylonia  About fifty years later, Babylonia had been conquered by Cyrus the Great of Persia, who permitted the people of Jerusalem to return home.  However, it would take 400 hundred years before the city would finally reconstruct their temple Exile and Return

5.   333 BC, Alexander the Great added Palestine, the country that held Jerusalem, to his own empire.  bout ten years later, Ptolemy I of Egypt had captured it and he too added to his kingdom.  198 BC, Selecid king, Antiochus III had taken a certain part of Palestine, of which Jerusalem was in, and made it tributary to Syria. A City of many Empires

6.   Shortly after being conquered by Syria, the people revolted and under the leadership of the Maccabees, drove the Syrians out.  Though, a little over hundred years later, the Romans had set up a local dynasty and helped reconstruct much of Jerusalem.  But this was short-lived, the Jews revolted when Jesus Christ was executed, and the city and the temple were destroyed again The Maccabees

7.   135, after the failure of the Bar Kochba revolt, Jews were banished from Jerusalem  When Christianity became legal in the Roman Empire, Jerusalem developed as a center of Christian pilgrimage  Soon enough, Christian shrines had been erected in the city Religion

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