Judea

Was it autism?

>>1458478
>>don't even station any legions there
that's always the best strategy
Jerusalem will rebel anyway regardless

so you take your units outside and camp outside the city

when they rebel on the next turn you invade them and cut down population to reasonable number so they remain loyal for some 5 turns. Rinse and repeat.

It helps to keep a breach in the Jerusalem's wall and not fix it so you can enter the city faster.

The children of Israel are fervently loyal to their spiritual and cultural identity. It's worth their own blood and is beyond walls and temples. They are the temples of Yahweh.

>>1458478
Religion is a helluva drug

>>1458478
Ancient Jews were your average middle eastern hotheads, violently murdering each other because someone misspelled a word in the holy scriptures or didn't follow one of their autismal rituals. When Jerusalem got liberated these faggots almost killed each other off even before the Romans had a chance to do it. Combine this with outright banditry (Galilee, Judean desert) and they're really the same shit as Arabs or Afghans. In fact 1st century Judea is almost identical to 70s/80s Afghanistan.

>>1458519
It worked.

2,000 years later, they're back and fighting the Philistines again.

>Implying the Jews aren't actually chosen

>>1458962

So, should we do as the Romans?

>>1458478
That's not exactly what happened.

> After King Herod died, and after the deposition of Herod Archelaus, the Romans instituted procurators (technically Prefects before 41) to rule the Judeans.
> In the beginning, the Roman procurators respected the laws and customs of the Jewish people, allowing them to rest on the Sabbath, granting them exemption from pagan rituals, and even printing coins free of images despite the fact that elsewhere the coins bore images.
> However, this changed with the institution of Gessius Florus as a procurator [who] helped set the revolt in motion after stealing from the temple treasury, and murdering Jews who opposed the destruction.
> Faced with Florus as a procurator, the Jews attempted to garner support from the governor of Syria...This plea for help however failed to garner any support
> [A] consequent riot erupted [and] was the first in a series of revolts.

Source: 3 and a half minutes of wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_War

>>1458508
Underrated