400-300
300-100
100-0
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Etcetera
100
The nation controlling Palestine as this century opens.
What is Persia?
100
The Jewish holiday that commemorates the re-dedication of the Temple in 164BCE.
What is Hanukkah?
100
This rising super-power gains control of Palestine in 63BCE.
What is Rome?
100
The dispersion of people from their original homeland.
What is diaspora?
100
Jesus' birth-year.
What is 6-4BCE?
200
In local control of Palestine as this century opens.
What is the High Priest?
200
Year Antiochus IV desecrates the Temple in Jerusalem.
What is 167BCE?
200
The man Rome appoints as king of Palestine in 37BCE.
Who is Herod the Great?
200
The policy to unite the world through Greek language and culture.
What is hellenization?
200
The event of this epoch the Jews considered as miraculous as the Exodus.
What is 1 day of oil burning for the 8 days necessary to re-dedicate the temple?
300
The year Alexander the Great gains control of Palestine.
What is 332BCE?
300
The power in control of Palestine from 301-198BCE.
What is the Ptolemies?
300
Caesar Augustus is known for this time of peace and stability throughout the empire.
What is Pax Romana?
300
This translation by 70 Jewish men was completed in 255BCE in Alexandria, Egypt.
What is the Septuagint?
300
4 of the Jewish sects that arise during this epoch.
What is Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes & Zealots?
400
3 legacies of Alexander the Great's rule.
What is hellenization, koine Greek and crucifixion?
400
The uprising that returned control of the Temple to the Jews in 165BCE.
What is the Maccabean Revolt?
400
This action of Herod, in 19BCE, was his attempt to win the favour of the Jews.
What is rebuilding the Temple?
400
Jews refer to Antiochus IV's desecration as this.
What is the Abomination of Desolation?
400
The goal of the Jews throughout this volatile epoch.
What is preserve their culture and religion?
500
Alexander the Great's heir.
What is no-one / kdom divided between 4 field marshals.
500
During this dynasty, the Temple became increasingly corrupt politically and religiously.
What is the Hasmonean Dynasty?
500
The 3 legacies of the Roman empire.
What is centralized gov't, stability/order, and paved roads.
500
A group of 13 Jewish historical books written during this epoch.
What is the Apocrypha?
500
For this reason, Rome installed a local representative "on the ground" in Palestine in 37BCE.
What is continuing rebellion by the Jews (30 yrs = 150,000 died).
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