I just told you that Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Iaahudu in 597 BC and Babylon thereafter called the conquered region the Province of Yehud. So Cyrus didn't establish anything new, except for taking over the prior government. He didn't establish the term, he transferred the name from the previous Babylonian name and that from the previous self-governing name. And Finklestein finds there were many Judahites (and Samaritans) there when Cyrus added a large number of Judahites (and so Babylon either didn't see civil war between them, or saw it and thus had the whole Persian dynamic you describe before Persia). Nor was it the first time that the Judahites had been a client state of a larger realm, but in prior cases the Judahites had eventually overthrown the ruler and returned to self-governance; so that "establishment" wasn't new either.
If you wanted to say that Cyrus first successfully established the principle of having some Judahites and some nominal Israelites (Samaritans) continuously rivals to each other, that might have been a first I suppose, but there were wars between the two before this, so I don't think even that was new enough to say that Cyrus hit upon something totally novel. You're repeating yourself, contradicting and ignoring historical artifacts, and taking a political theory (that would be relatively innocuous in itself) too far by calling it an innovation when it isn't.
Let me share with you the AI results: "The province of Yehud was established by Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. It was created to absorb the Babylonian province of Yehud, which had been established by the Neo-Babylonian Empire to absorb the Kingdom of Judah after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. 13
The province was named Yehud Medinata, which is the Aramaic designation for the Persian province of Judah. It was an autonomous administrative unit within the larger satrapy of Eber-Nari (Beyond the River). 135
The establishment of the province reflected the empire's decentralized governance model, which permitted local ethnic groups to maintain customary laws and religious practices under appointed officials to ensure regional stability and minimize administrative costs in peripheral areas. 3".
I just told you that Nebuchadnezzar conquered the Iaahudu in 597 BC and Babylon thereafter called the conquered region the Province of Yehud. So Cyrus didn't establish anything new, except for taking over the prior government. He didn't establish the term, he transferred the name from the previous Babylonian name and that from the previous self-governing name. And Finklestein finds there were many Judahites (and Samaritans) there when Cyrus added a large number of Judahites (and so Babylon either didn't see civil war between them, or saw it and thus had the whole Persian dynamic you describe before Persia). Nor was it the first time that the Judahites had been a client state of a larger realm, but in prior cases the Judahites had eventually overthrown the ruler and returned to self-governance; so that "establishment" wasn't new either.
If you wanted to say that Cyrus first successfully established the principle of having some Judahites and some nominal Israelites (Samaritans) continuously rivals to each other, that might have been a first I suppose, but there were wars between the two before this, so I don't think even that was new enough to say that Cyrus hit upon something totally novel. You're repeating yourself, contradicting and ignoring historical artifacts, and taking a political theory (that would be relatively innocuous in itself) too far by calling it an innovation when it isn't.
Let me share with you the AI results: "The province of Yehud was established by Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE. It was created to absorb the Babylonian province of Yehud, which had been established by the Neo-Babylonian Empire to absorb the Kingdom of Judah after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587 BCE. 13 The province was named Yehud Medinata, which is the Aramaic designation for the Persian province of Judah. It was an autonomous administrative unit within the larger satrapy of Eber-Nari (Beyond the River). 135 The establishment of the province reflected the empire's decentralized governance model, which permitted local ethnic groups to maintain customary laws and religious practices under appointed officials to ensure regional stability and minimize administrative costs in peripheral areas. 3".