The MOTHER of FATIMA bint Asad is ZAHNA, daughter of the EXILARCH KAPHNAI of BAGHDAD, descendant of King David of Jerusalem.

The Babylonians destroyed the First Temple and exiled the Jews.

A Jewish community numbering in (at least) hundreds of thousands lived and flourished in Babylonia for over 1500 years, with autonomy under the Exilarch and with some of the greatest of all Yeshivot and sages.

Jerusalem and much of inland Judea were almost entirely Jewish, although there was an Asclepium, a temple to the Greek god Asclepius outside the city - this is mentioned in John's Gospel, where Jesus was said to heal the man who was too lame to enter the pool whenever Asclepius passed by and disturbed the water.

The coastal cities of Judea, such as Caesarea Maritima were essentially pagan, but the coastal villages might have been predominantly Jewish.

Galilee also seems to have had a large Jewish population in the early part of the first century, largely as a result of forced conversions during the Maccabee invasions. The major cities were probably pagan, and a cache of coins found at Mount Carmel in 1960, probably belonged to a pagan. After the Second Roman-Jewish War, the Jewish population of Galilee expanded considerably.

Samaria followed a variant of monotheistic Judaism. This must have come to the people from ancient Judah, but the Samarians rejected biblical material that glorified the Kingdom of Judah.

The Babylonians destroyed the First Temple and forcibly exiled Israel's (Judea's) population to Babylonia.
While the Jews were permitted to return seventy years later, and tens of thousands did so (and rebuilt the Temple), most of them remained in Babylonia, while others began to settle in North Africa, southern Europe, the Crimea, throughout the Near East and elsewhere.
The diaspora (scattering) was difficult for us because of the impediment to communication between the various communities; because certain mitzvot (such as those related to agriculture in the Holy Land) now became suspended for the duration of the exile; and because the Jews were now a minority among other nations, who were sometimes quite hostile.

How did the diaspora affect the Jews?
To a certain extent, the diaspora caused the various Jewish communities to take on minor aspects of their host countries.
While all Jews share the same Torah and Talmud, and differences in halakhah (Jewish laws) are relatively small, nonetheless some traits of our regions of residence have rubbed off on us. Examples are the differences in pronunciation and accent (for the Hebrew alphabet), differences in dress, and differences in customs and mannerisms.