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The history of terrorism goes back to Sicarii Zealots Jewish extremist group active in Iudaea Province at the beginning of CE. After Zealotry rebellion in the 1st century AD, when some prominent collaborators with Roman rule were killed. in 6 AD Judas of Galilee formed a small and more extreme offshoot of the Zealots, the Sicarii. Their terror also was directed against Jews, the priests and wealthy elites.
The term "terrorism" was originally used to describe the actions of the Jacobin Club during the "Reign of Terror" in the French Revolution. In January 1858, Italian patriot Felice Orsini threw three bombs in an attempt to assassinate French Emperor Napoleon III. Eight bystanders were killed and 142 injured. The incident played a crucial role as an inspiration for the development of the early Russian terrorist groups
Russian Sergey Nechayev, founded People's Retribution in 1869, described himself as a "terrorist« Nechayev's story is told in fictionalized form by Fyodor Dostoevsky in the novel The Possessed.