The Kitos War (115-118) 

It gets funnier every time he says it

What do lost victories count? Every war ended with Jewish defeat.

If anything is omitted in the modern day retelling of the three Jewish wars or the Himyarite kingdom, it is the amount of ethnic cleansing and genocide committed by Jewish rebels. The entire Kitos war was the definition of genocide and ethnic cleansing (killing over half a million civilians because they are a different religion/ethnicity is genocide)

@@MrCadet08 - I hadn't heard about that. Do you know which religion and ethnicity the people were that the Jews reportedly killed? Egyptian? Samaritans? Pagan?

@@Achill101 romans and greeks it seems

I don't like to talk about the endgame for this video, but I *may* dig deeper into Jewish theology when another channel and I collaborate to talk about Judaism's presence in the rise of Islam.

@@SamAronow I'm excited for that :).

The siege of hatra says otherwise.

@@azuaraikrezeul1677 a hard battle that you win is still a victory

Late answer, but being that the largest Jewish community wasn't in Judea, but was instead in Egypt, it's very likely, given that Cyprus and Cyrenaica was nearby, that there were Jews already living there who weren't involved in the mass violence of the extremist rebels, but because they were Jewish, the same ethnicity as the rebels, they were removed from their homes, despite commiting no crimes against their neighbors. That doesn't mean the actions of the extremists weren't ethnic cleansing, but being that these were extremist rebels, they probably didn't care about your ethnicity, they just wanted to conquer, and if the Jews living there had attempted to resist the rebels, they probably would have been killed as well.

​@@JtheCriticthank you Were these extremists more in line with the zealots? Or what I'm asking is, did the zealots survive the destruction of the first temple? Since from what I've read only the Pharisees/Rabbinic Judaism and Early Christianity survived that

@@Baccanaso while I know some things about Jewish political history, I do not know much about the different sects and their theological disputes and stances.

@@JtheCritic I read that these Jews killed about a million innocent people throughout the region..........in 115AD. Wiping entire cities by literal sword isn't extremist, its that other thing.

He was black berber. Hardly anything about him on youtube?

In fact, he only portrayed the emperors Trajan and Hadrian (and himself), both of who have reliable images available. None of the minor figures like the Armenian king was portrayed (except for two random dudes that don't actually matter, no idea why). None of the other _major_ figures was portrayed, e.g. the actual leaders of the Jewish uprising in Cyrenaica or Cyprus. Because, like with Quietus, we don't have any images of them. funny how you totally misrepresent that. I wonder why

@@varana there are reliable images of Lusius Quietus as well. The fact that you commented the way you did tells me you know exactly what I’m talking about

@@marctoonz813 No, we don't. We have one or two pieces that are sometimes assumed to be Quietus, which is highly doubtful (as in, there's no real reason to believe that they depict him). And second - maybe I know what you're talking about, and it's nonsense in this case. Also, "funny how" you ignored the rest of my post.

Not much to describe about him. He was the quiet type.

That's true, but there's another dimension, which is that Hadrian was broadly very unpopular throughout the Empire by the end of his rule. Only in the 18th century, when Edward Gibbon included him among the "Five Good Emperors," was he rehabilitated.

Really makes you think about how much impact one Englishman has on how we see the Roman empire.

@@redcoat4348 Two if you include Robert Graves.

History is written by the Winners, if WW2 had ended different Hitler would be remembered with the same fondness as FDR.

@@bill9989 and i mean, Hadrian was a good emperor, what he did to the jewish people does not interfere with what he did for the empire. Building the Hadrian wall, the version we see today of the Pantheon in Rome and consolidating the borders of the empire

*That* explains it! Thank you.

@Kitos it was an illiterate mistake. The General name was Quietas.

Yep

Not mispronounced but Kitos is Quietus in Greek