There is no concept of "health and safety" in elizabethan england, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. people die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. on top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common. what is the topic of this paragraph

“in december 598 [b.c.] nebuchadnezzar left babylon once more to campaign in the west. he besieged jerusalem, which had rebelled three years earlier, and on 16 march 597 it fell. king jehoiachin and many of his subjects were deported to babylon and zedekiah was installed as king of judah in his place. after some years zedekiah too rebelled. the babylonians began a siege of jerusalem which lasted for more than a year. the walls were finally breached in the summer of 587 . . and the city surrendered about a month later. much of jerusalem may have been destroyed at this time and more jews were deported.” —michael roaf, cultural atlas of mesopotamia and the ancient near east what can you conclude about the jews from this passage? a. they admired nebuchadnezzar. b. they did not try to defend their city. c. they were stronger than the babylonians. d. they wanted to be independent. select the best answer from the choices provided a b c d mark this and return