Map & Geography
Body of water west of ancient Israel
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The leader who left Mesopotamia for Canaan
Who is Abraham?
The belief in one God
What is monotheism?
The southern kingdom after the split
What is Judah?
The empire that conquered the Chaldeans
What is the Persian Empire?
City that David made Israel’s capital
What is Jerusalem?
The leader who led the Israelites out of Egypt
Who is Moses?
The event in which Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt
What is the Exodus?
The northern kingdom after the split
What is Israel?
Persian king who allowed the Jews to return
Who is Cyrus the Great?
Peninsula where the Israelites wandered in the wilderness
What is the Sinai Peninsula?
Israel’s first king
Who is Saul?
The written moral laws given to Moses
What are the Ten Commandments?
The people who conquered the northern kingdom in 722 BCE
Who were the Assyrians?
Year the Persians conquered the Chaldeans
What was the Persian conquest of the Chaldeans?
Land Abraham was told to journey to
What is Canaan?
King who united the tribes and defeated the Philistines
Who is David?
The sacred collection of Jewish writings
What is the Tanakh?
Babylonian king who conquered Judah
Who is Nebuchadnezzar?
What Cyrus allowed Jews to do in Jerusalem
What is rebuild it?
Region shaped like a crescent that included fertile lands
What is the Fertile Crescent?
King who built the First Temple
Who is Solomon?
The Jewish day of rest
What is the Sabbath?
Psalm 137 expresses grief about this event
What is the Babylonian Captivity?
The name for Jewish communities living beyond their homeland
What is the Diaspora?