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19. Herod the Great was installed by the Romans as King of the Jews in 39 BC. and his family remained a major force in Palestine for the next 130 years. The Jews remained a fractious society, however, torn by disparate political and religious loyalties.
20. a royal retreat city: JERICHO with its great palace a cone-shaped mountain fortress called HERODIUM, near Bethlehem CAESARIA MARITIMA, a great port that linked Palestine with the Roman empire the rock fortress 1,300 ft. above the Dead Sea shore at MASADA and the GREAT TEMPLE and main palace in JERUSALEM
