What happened at the roman invasion and the Diaspora?

Answer 1

There was not a Roman invasion. The Romans had already annexed Judea. What happened was the great Jewish Revolt which has also been called the First Jewish- Roman War (66-73).

There was tension between the Jews and the Greeks in Judea. The Greeks provoked the Jews by sacrificing birds in front of a synagogue and the Roman soldiers did not intervene. The old tensions between Jews and Greeks escalated. One of the priests of the Temple in Jerusalem stopped praying and performing sacrifices for the Roman emperor in protest. There were also protests over Roman taxation. There were random attacks on Roman citizens and Jews who collaborated with the Romans in Jerusalem. Things were made much worse by the Roman governor, Gessius Florus, who ordered his troops to breach the temple and seize seventeen talents of gold from its treasury, claiming that it was money due to the emperor. Unrest broke out in Jerusalem. Florus reacted by sending soldiers to raid the city and arrest some city leaders who were later whipped and crucifies. This was bad enough, but it was made even worse by the fact that some of these men had been made Roman citizens and Roman law did not allow the crucifixion of Roman citizens. Two Jewish nationalistic factions, the Zealots and the Sicarii, armed themselves and overrun the Roman military garrison in Jerusalem. Their militias then attacked Roman citizens of Judea and pro-Roman officials and removed Roman symbols around the country. The Romans sent armies to Judea. This was the beginning of the first Roman-Jewish War.

The Romans eventually besieged Jerusalem stormed it, looted it, killed many people, took 97,000 captives as slaves and destroyed the Second Temple. They finally seized Masada which was a seemingly impregnable fortress on a table-mountain where the Sicarii organised raids on the Romans from and which was the last bastion of Jewish resistance.