The Roman Empire. Thats one of the reasons Jesus came along, The government was being inihuman to prisoners, and paganism was the official religion. And before that the Jews Refused to sacrifice animals for food by the old Disgusting methods of the pagans. Because in the time of the Roman Empire people treated each other like Animals, They dident bury their dead they just left them to scavengers. They dident know how to slaughter animals properly, They would eat bad meat, raw meat, spoiled meat. I'n not bashing them. It is written in Hebrew.