Babylonia
This happened in 586 b.c.e.
What is the destruction of Solomon's Temple?
Cyrus was sometimes called this by the Jews who returned to Judah.
What is a messiah?
He brought Greek culture to Judah.
Who was Alexander the Great?
Who were the Hasmoneans?
What is the Divided Kingdom?
Consequence of Judahite rebellion against Babylonia.
What is the Babylonian exile?
Zerubabel built this.
What is the second Temple?
This kingdom ruled Judah immediately after Alexander the Great died.
Who were the Ptolemies?
Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes, and Zealots.
What were the four main sects in first century Judah?
Josiah and David did this.
Who centralized Temple sacrifice in Jerusalem?
Jobs that Jews had in Babylonia.
What are bankers, merchants, and/or farmers?
Who built walls around Judah.
Unlike his father Antiochus III, Antiochus IV did this.
Which Syrian Greek king outlawed Jewish practices?
Who were the Pharisees?
The historical reason that Sennacherib did not conquer Jerusalem.
What is a plague?
The exiled Judahites cried by this river.
What is the river of Babylon?
Ezra did this at the marketplace.
What is teaching Torah?
After they won the war, the Maccabees celebrated this holiday, which later is known as Hanukkah.
What is Sukkot?
We believed in "Liberty above all else" and the war was our fault.
Who were the Zealots?
People deported by Assyria after Israel's rebellion.
What are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel?
This prophet told the Judahites to plant gardens and have babies in Babylonia.
Who is Jeremiah?
Zerubabel and later Ezra and Nehemiah rejected these people.
Who were the Samaritans?
A combination of Greek culture and local culture.
What is hellenism?
This resulted in the destruction of the second Temple.
What was the Jewish war with Rome?
Belief in one God.
What is monotheism?