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When herod agrippa died three years later, according to christian tradition, smoten by the lord for th ime of imprisoning the apostle peter and executing the apostle james, control of judea passed back to rome. Claudius then handed autonomy back to herod, agrippa's son in forty eight a d, in an attempt to maintain some kind of roman jurisdiction over the notoriously independent jews. As a whole, claudiu's reign marks the most active in terms of territorial acquisition we have seen since augustus,. It will remain unmatched until trajan gets the expansionary itch in the early 100 a d.