The Hasmonean dynasty emerged from the Maccabean revolt, a Jewish uprising against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who had banned Jewish practices and desecrated the Temple in Jerusalem. The revolt was started by the priest Mattathias and led by his son Judas Maccabeus, who rededicated the Temple, an event commemorated at Hanukkah. His brothers and their descendants then ruled Judea as high priests and, from the time of Aristobulus I, as kings, expanding the territory to include much of ancient Israel. Civil war between two Hasmonean brothers allowed the Roman general Pompey to intervene and take Jerusalem, and the dynasty was displaced by Herod the Great.
Before and after
- from 180 BCE to 10 CEIndo-Greek Kingdoms
- 2nd century BCEWinged Victory of Samothrace
- from 171 BCE to 168 BCEThird Macedonian War
- 167 BCERise of Maccabees
- 167 BCERise of Hasmonean dynasty
- from 167 BCE to 160 BCEMaccabean Revolt
- from 2nd century BCE to 2nd centuryProto–Three Kingdoms of Korea
- from 149 BCE to 146 BCEThird Punic War
- from 149 BCE to 146 BCESiege of Carthage
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