NAME ______KEY______PERIOD______
CHAPTER 2-THE FERTILE CRESCENT
SECTION 4-Mediterranean Civilizations
1. Explain the importance of the two valuable resources the Phoenicians had.
a. PURPLE DYE FORM SNAILS TO DYE CLOTH b. CEDAR WOOD FROM CEDAR FORESTS
2. In which two waterways did the Phoenicians travel to do their trade business?
a. ___MEDITERRANEAN SEA______b. __ATLANTIC OCEAN______
3. Defend the Phoenicians’ reasons for telling stories of the sea monsters.
a. _IF PEOPLE BELIEVED THEIR STORIES THEY WOULD NOT VENTURE OUT INTO THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TAKING AWAY THE PHOENICIAN’S TRADE BUSINESS__
4. What two things resulted in the Phoenicians developing a new alphabet?
1) IT WOULD BE MUCH EASIER TO READ 2) MORE PEOPLE COULD USE IT______
5. Once the Phoenicians made their alphabet, this made __TRADING______easier.
6. Location: give a relative location of the Hebrews compared to the Phoenicians. __SOUTH OF PHOENICIA___
7. What is another name used for the Hebrews? __ISRAELITES______
8. Examine the way the Israelites first lived: __AS SHEPHERDS AND MERCHANTS______
9. The Hebrew Bible, __TORAH______says that God told Abraham to leave Mesopotamia, Abraham took his people to what location? __CANAAN______
10. Why did the Israelites leave Canaan, and where did they go? a.) __FAMINE_____ b.) __EGYPT______
11. Determine two causes for the Egyptian king turning the Israelites into slaves.
1) _THE ISRAELITES LIVED VERY WELL IN EGYPT_
2) _THE KING GREW SUSPICIOUS OF THEIR POWER__
12. Who led the Israelites from Egypt and what is it called? a.) _MOSES______b.) __EXODUS____
13. Location: In which geographic region did the Israelites wander for 40 years? _SINAI PENINSULA_____
14. What contribution from God did Moses give the people? 10 COMMANDMENTS
15. Put in chronological order the Israelites kings and their contributions:
a. _SAUL-DEFENDED THEM AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES______
b. _DAVID-ESTABLISHED HIS CAPITAL IN JERUSALEM______
c. _SOLOMON-DIVIDED IT INTO TWO PARTS: 1) ISRAEL (NORTH) & JUDAH (SOUTH)______
16. What two things occurred due to the separation of Solomon’s kingdom?
a. _ASSYRIANS CONQUERED THE ISRAELITES AND GAINED CONTROL OF JUDAH______
b. _ASSYRIANS EXILED THOUSANDS OF ISRAELITES TO DISTANT PARTS OF THE EARTH___
17. Summarize the story of Judah’s king’s rebellion to the Chaldeans’ king. _NEBUCHADNEZZAR RESPONDED BY DESTROYING THE CAPITAL OF JERUSALEM AND EXILING THE PEOPLE TO BABYLONIA___
SECTION 5-Judaism
1. Compare/contrast most ancient people’s religious beliefs to that of the Israelites:
- MOST ANCIENT PEOPLE BELIEVED IN MANY GODS/GODDESSES AND WERE CONNECTED TO CERTAIN PLACES AND PEOPLE______
- _HEBREWS BELIEVED THAT GOD WAS PRESENT EVERYWHERE, KNOWS EVERYTHING, AND HAS COMPLETE POWER______
2. Prove the reason behind the Israelites considering themselves to be God’s “chosen people”.
_GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM THAT HIS PEOPLE WOULD BECOME KINGS AND BUILD NATIONS, MAKING A COVENANT______
3. Who renewed the covenant and how? a.) __MOSES____ b.) __HE TOLD THE ISRAELITES THAT GOD WOULD LEAD THEM TO THE PROMISED LAND______
4. What are the religious duties that God sent through Moses called? _TEN COMMANDMENTS______
5. Our text mentions two categories of the Ten Commandments:
1.) __OUR RELIGIOUS DUTIES TOWARD GOD_
2.) __RULES FOR CORRECT BEHAVIOR___
6. Prophets preached about a code of ethics, _MORAL BEHAVIOR______
7. Explain what the Romans continued after the Chaldeans and Assyrians had started.
_THEY DROVE THE JEWS FROM THEIR HOMELAND, SCATTERING THEM AROUND THE WORLD, DIASPORA______
8. Judaism influenced which 2 religions: 1) __CHRISTIANITY______2) ___ISLAM______
9. In which ways are Judaism similar to them?
- _BOTH RELIGIONS HAVE THEIR BEGINNINGS IN JUDAISM______
- _BOTH FAITHS ORIGINATED FROM THE SAME GEOGRAPHICAL AREA______
- _BOTH ARE MONOTHEISTIC______
10. Which people did they honor?
1) __ABRAHAM______2) __MOSES______3) ___PROPHETS______