How come the Selucids, the largest and wealthiest of the Diodochi states, couldn't crush a bunch of Hebrew goatfuckers right next to their center of strength?
The Texans were a pretty large state too, I don't see why they didn't just crush the Cubans
>>389049
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>>389049
jews are LITTERALLY the master race
>>389049
Because we are the chosen people.
They were a nightmare for the Romans too. Guess where the word zealot comes from.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%E2%80%93Roman_wars
>>389049
Come on, מִשׁפָּחָה, we all know that the Hebrews were the least likely people in that area to be goatfuckers.
>>390742
Yeah but to be fair, the Romans kinda got even with the whole destruction of Jerusalem/banishment of Jews from their home country/the Fiscus Judaicus/relocation of the regional capital to Caesarea Maritima/decades where Jews couldn't travel to most cities without an angry mob curb-stomping them to death, thing.
>>389049
You are implying that the Seleucids were otherwise competent.
>>390825
And the second war of that, the one that banished them from their homeland, took quite literally half of the Roman army, at the height of Hadrian's power.
Heebs were tough.