>>1334854Folkways are the common ways of a broad swath of native Europeans and Asians. The rebels represent these people. They aren't one specific ethnicity or tribe. In the specific instance of the Roman Republic turning into the Roman Empire, this is the "Jewish revolt" of Masada, but those were not Talmudic Jews, which is what we mean by the phrase "Jew" today.
So, the folk were fighting the growing empire, which was the Roman Empire, later the Vatican.
