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- Josephus claims that 1.1 million people were killed during the siege, of which a majority were Jewish, and that 97,000 were captured and enslaved, including Simon bar Giora and John of Giscala. His figures are rejected as impossible by modern scholarship, since around the time about a million people lived in Palestine, probably about half of them were Jews, and sizable Jewish populations remained in the area after the war was over, even in the hard-hit region of Judea.
This began the first of the Roman Diasporas of the Jewish people. A Jewish state, albeit a shadow of its former self would hang on until 135 when Hadrian stomped on a Jewish revolt and scattered the few remaining survivors.