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Thank you for checking out this little teaser of the history of the papacy and church.

Here's a little taste of once coming up soon on the History of the Papacy podcast. Now, if you like what you hear, I'd love it if you'd leave a rating

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With that, here's another piece of the mosaic of the popes of Rome and Christian Church.

And I will definitely be talking to you more soon.

It's hard to imagine a more thorough and deliberate dismantling of a kingdom.

Now, to be fair, the Babylonians probably did not kill all the nobles of Judah,

but they certainly killed many of them, enough to eliminate the leadership class and to severely break the leadership class,

Zadafkaya's fate sealed the deal.

He would see his sons executed before him.

Then he was blinded and taken away into chains. No more king, no more crown, princes,

no more resistance. In place of a monarchy, the Babylonians appointed a governor to oversee

what remained. The new province was called Yehoud. It was no longer an independent kingdom. It was a

conquered land administered by imperial officials. The Babylonians carried off the best and

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