Alexander the Great and the Diadochi; Palestine under Ptolemaic rule; Palestine under the Seleucid rule (200-135/63 BCE); the Hasmonean dynasty; Herod the Great (37-4BCE); from Herod to the first Jewish war; the first Jewish war (66-74CE); between the wars - the first Jewish war from 74 to 132 CE; the Bar Kochba Revolt to the Arab conquest of Palestine.