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Directions: Use p. 55-57 and 60-64 in the
Ancient textbook to complete the notes.
1. How did the Israelites have influence
on our civilization?
2. Where can Israelites trace their
beginnings to?
3. Who is Abraham? What happened to
him? Where did he lead the Israelites?
4. What is a famine? What did the
Israelites go because of it?
5. What happened after their exodus from
Egypt?
6. Name Israel’s three most famous kings.
What happened after the third king?
7. Who took them over? What happened
to the Israelites and then Judah?
8. How are the Torah and the Christian
bible related?
9. What was God’s promise to the
Israelites?
10.
What are the Ten Commandments?
11. What did the Romans do to the
Jewish people? When?
12. What is diaspora? Where did they
end up? What did they do?
13. What two faiths did Judaism have
an influence on?
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Answers.
1. Much of what we know about the
Israelites comes from the Torah, and it
helps archaeologists piece together the
past.
2. Mesopotamia – they were merchants
and grazed their flocks outside
Sumerian cities
3. He is the first leader of the Israelites,
he taught the people the belief in God,
God told him to leave Mesopotamia and
settle in Canaan
4. A drought so bad, there is little food
and people starve. They went to Egypt,
there they were treated well, but then a
pharaoh made them into slaves.
5. They wondered around the Sinai Desert
for 40 years, while wondering they
received the 10 commandments
6. Saul, David, and Solomon
They divided into 2 kingdoms – Israel
in the north, Judah in the south
7. Assyria, the Israelites resisted Assyrian
rule and they were exiled to another
place in the empire. Judah rebelled
against King Nebuchadnezzar and he
destroyed Jerusalem and exiled them
to Babylon.
8. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers,
Deuteronomy – the first 5 books of the
Bible are the Torah
9. His people would become kings and
build nations
10. Religious duties and rules for
correct behavior that God gave them
through Moses
11. Drove them out of Jerusalem (after
it was rebuilt) around 135AD
12. The scattering of the Jews. They
practiced their traditions, religious
laws, and worship wherever they went.
13.
Christianity and Islam