The Phoenicians
How did the Phoenicians turn imports from other cultures into exports?
What are raw materials? They used the raw materials they imported to make metal items, iron tools, and weapons that they sold to people in other countries.
Explain the relationship between Judaism and monotheism.
What is One God? Judaism holds that there is only one God, which is the definition of monotheism
What is a prophet, and what kind of writings are found in the collection of books called the Prophets?
What is a messenger, and The Prophets contain history, preaching, poetry, and calls for reform.
The Assyrians divided the empire into about seventy (70) smaller units of government called?
What are Provinces?
Commentary
What is a set of comments or a recorded discussion about something?
How was the Phoenician alphabet similar to the alphabet we use today?
What is an alphabet that consists of a relatively small number of letters, each of which stands for a single sound.
Use the words commandment and ethics in a sentence about Judaism.
What are The Ten Commandments? The Ten Commandments form a basis for Jewish ethics and behavior
What is the relationship between the Talmud and Hebrew Bible? What do they say about Jewish ideas of Righteousness and justice?
What is individual responsibility and living a righteous and just life?
Nebuchadnezzar II became king of Babylon, he expanded his power as far west as Egypt, he also captured Jerusalem, destroyed the Jewish Temple, and exiled many Jews to Babylon. His empire is known as?
Nebuchadnezzar's empire is known as the Neo-Babylonian empire.
Eventually
What is after a time?
How is the Greek adoption of the Phoenician way of writing an example of cultural diffusion?
What is the spreading of cultural traits? Cultural diffusion is the spreading of cultural traits, and one of the cultural traits of the Phoenicians was their way of writing.
What is the connection according to the Hebrew Bible, between Abraham's covenant with God and the Israelites' belief about Canaan.
What is the Promised Land? According to the Hebrew Bible, God promised to give land of Canaan to Abraham's descendants.
What are the three main parts of the Hebrew Bible and how do they differ?
The Torah is the first five books, focusing on the early Israelites and God's laws. The Prophets are by or about Jewish prophets and describe the history of the Israelites. The Writings contain wise sayings, books with stories of heroes, and more of the early history of the Jewish people.
How did the Assyrians create an empire?
What are iron weapons? Iron weapons were used to expand a military state into an empire.
Profit
What is to make a gain?
How did the evolution of language impact the number of people who could read and write in each of the societies, Phoenician, Greek, and Roman.
What are civilized societies? In each society more and more people could read and write than in the last society because with each society, the alphabet and system of writing became easier to use.
What was the lesson of the Exodus, according to the Torah?
What is obeying God's Law? God would provide for the Israelites and their descendants if they obeyed God's laws.
Why is studying the Hebrew Bible and commentaries such as the Talmud so important to Jews?
What are sacred rules for Jews for living? These works provide Jews with sacred rules for living.
How did the way the Persian government handled religion throughout the empire help preserve social and political order?
What is treating your conquered people equitably? They often allowed them to keep their religions and have some control over their government, this led the people to be content under Persian rule, so they did not try to break the empire apart.
Assembly
What is a group organized for a purpose?
How did the Phoenicia's location allow Phoenicians to more easily make contact with other cultures?
What is bordered on the Mediterranean? Phoenicia bordered on the Mediterranean, which allowed Phoenicians to easily travel to other lands by sailing.
What did the Israelites do after they reached Canaan?
What is conquered those who had already settled there? They conquered those who currently lived there, and then they settled on the land.
How are God's covenants with the Jewish people related to Jewish teachings about ethics and justice?
Jews believe they have made covenants with God to follow God's laws and to behave ethically and justly.
What was the effect of having a standing army on Persia's growth?
What is a Calvary? It helped Persia to grow rapidly because it made conquering other people more efficient.
Compel
What is to force?