In 63 BCE, Rome intervened in the region and sacked Jerusalem. From that point on, the local government was effectively in Roman hands, but until the year 6 CE, Judea was a quasi-independent client state of the Roman Empire. By that year, the government got so inept that the population appealed to Rome, and Rome deposed the ruler and annexed Judea, Samaria and Idumea. Aside from a brief period of nominal autonomy under Herod Agrippa from 41 to 44 CE, the Roman provence of Judea was ruled by Prefects and (after Herod Agrippa) Legates. Roman rule was interrupted by two great revolts (66-72 CE and 132-135), and after the second revolt, the Jewish population was suppressed, the land was renamed Palaestina (after the Philistines, traditioinal enemies of the Jews) and Jerusalem was largely demol