Which Jewish sect whose revolt against Roman Emperor Justinian in 529AD was put down so severely that tens of thousands died or were enslaved?
Samaritan revolts (also Sammon or Ammon). As a response, forces of the "dux Palaestinae", combined with units of local governors and the Ghassanid Arab phylarch, were dispatched to deal with the uprising. Ben Sabar was surrounded and defeated after withdrawing with his forces from Neapolis. After his capture, he was beheaded and his head, crowned with a diadem, was sent to Emperor Justianian. By 531 the rebellion had been put down. The forces of Emperor Justinian I quelled the revolt with the help of the Ghassanid Arabs; tens of thousands of Samaritans died or were enslaved, with their death-toll possibly being between
Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus occupied Galilee. Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus In 351–352 the Jews of Roman Palaestina revolted against the rule of Constantius Gallus, brother-in-law of Emperor Constantius II and "Caesar" of the Eastern Roman Empire. The revolt was crushed by Gallus' general Ursicinus. The emperor Constantius II, like his father Constantine the Great before him, showed a preference for the Christian religion, which he favored over all others, including Judaism. Unlike his father, however, Constantius allowed Christians to persecute the pagans and the Jews. Some Christian clergy practiced intolerance toward non-Christians, both through the secular arm and in directing angry crowds, which