Instructions: In this task, you're given a sentence and your task is to generate a simplified sentence that focuses on lexical paraphrasing from the original sentence given in the input.
Input: roman conquest judea lost its independence to the romans in the 1st century bce , by becoming first a tributary kingdom , then a province , of the roman empire.
Output:
roman conquest judea lost its independence to the romans in the 1st century bce by becoming a tributary kingdom , then a province of the roman empire.