the colosseum, to adorn the colosseum. as all conquerors do, they took the wealth for themselves. >> the destruction of the temple was devastating and symbolic, further dividing jews and christians. >> for the christians, the destruction of the temple was punishment on the jews for their rejection of jesus. >> some jewish rebels managed to escape and made their way to a hilltop fortress called masada. but that, too, ended in tragedy when the romans built a ramp to penetrate the fortress. >> when this happened, the jewish insurgency within the walls then took a suicide pact. they killed one another until the last ones that killed themselves. and so when the romans finally arrived at the fortress, in fact, all they found were dead