Land Bridge
The region that served as a land bridge connecting Africa, Asia, and Europe.
What is the Levant?
The patriarch who believed his descendants would be as numerous as the stars.
Who is Abraham?
The leader who first made a covenant with God and traveled to Canaan.
Who is Abraham?
The names used for the people before the development of Judaism.
What are Hebrews or Israelites?
The Levant lies between these two major ancient civilizations.
What are Egypt and Mesopotamia?
The country the Hebrews moved to during a famine in Canaan.
What is Egypt?
The prophet who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt.
Who is Moses?
The event when many Hebrews were forced to leave their homeland by Babylon.
What is the Babylonian Exile?
Because of its location, many armies and traders passed through this region.
What is the Levant?
The condition the Hebrews were forced into after living in Egypt for many years.
What is slavery?
The mountain where Moses received laws for the Hebrew people.
What is Mount Sinai?
The religion that developed from Hebrew beliefs after the exile.
What is Judaism?
The promised homeland of the Hebrews located in the Levant.
What is Canaan?
The journey in which the Hebrews left Egypt and traveled toward the Promised Land.
What is the Exodus?
The set of laws written on stone tablets that guided Hebrew life.
What are the Ten Commandments?
Two institutions Judaism could survive without after the exile.
What are a king and a temple?
A modern country north of Israel that is also part of the Levant.
What is Syria?
The number of years the Hebrews wandered in the desert according to tradition.
What is 40 years?
The special agreement between God and Abraham.
What is a covenant?
The reason Hebrew culture survived while many other ancient cultures disappeared.
What is becoming a portable belief system?