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[Anomalocaris]

The whole monotheism thing became a distinct problem when the Jewish cult of Christianity gained popularity. Jews has occasional difficulties with the Romans (in places like Alexandria), but they were smart enough (and well-established enough) to get by. Christians, though... not so smart.

Occassional difficulties? The bar kokhba revolt was easily the most serious native armed uprising against Roman rule in the history of the early Empire and took 40% of the entire Imperial army to crush. Prior to that, hardly anyone notice the christians besides the christains. The christains were dismissed as just another weird and obnoxious Jewish sect.

It was only after Rome eventually crushed the Jews utterly, executed most of the entire Jewish priesthood, and drove remaining Jews out of Palastine as punishment for this rebellion that early Christians found opportunity to profiteer from the misfortune of their recent fellow Jews by turning their cult from still largely a Jewish affair to something with a decidedlt antisemitic tone in order to cash in on the feverish pitch of Roman anti-Jewish feelings.