Archaeological and Biblical Background

Question 1

What are the three Pre-biblical Periods?

Answer 1

1. 7000-4000 bce: Neolithic Age
2. 4000-3200 bce: Chalcolithic Age
3. 3200-2350 bce: Early Bronze Age

Question 2

What archeological/historical period is the Sarah and Abraham/ancestors story/ genesis?

Answer 2

Middle Bronze Age (2350-1550 bce)

Question 3

Era of slavery in Egypt, Exodus and Conquest of Canaan?

Answer 3

Late Bronze Age (1550-1170 bce)

Question 4

Age of Rise and Fall of Israel as a nation?

Answer 4

Iron Age (1170 - 587 bce)

Question 5

Babylon Period (date)

Answer 5

587-538 bce

Question 6

Persian Period (date)

Answer 6

538-332 bce

Question 7

Hellenistic (Greek) Period (date)

Answer 7

332-152 bce

Question 8

Hasmonean (Independence) Period (date)

Answer 8

154-63 bce

Question 9

Roman Period (date)

Answer 9

63 bce- 324 ce

Question 10

Herodian Period (during Roman Period) Date

Answer 10

37 bce-c.100 ce

Question 11

Byzantine Period (Constaninople Roman Empire) Date

Answer 11

324-640 ce

Question 12

First Islamic Period

Answer 12

640-1099

Question 13

Crusade Period (date)

Answer 13

1099-1291

Question 14

Second Islamic Period/ Mamluk (date)

Answer 14

1291-1517

Question 15

Ottoman Period (date)

Answer 15

1517-1917

Question 16

Around 1850 BCE (Importance)

Answer 16

time of Abraham, Sarah, Isaac and Jacob

Question 17

1000 BCE Importance

Answer 17

King David conquers Jerusalem and establishes Israelite Kingdom

Question 18

721 BCE

Answer 18

Northern Kingdom (Israel) destroyed by Assyrians

Question 19

586 or 587 bce

Answer 19

Judah defeated by Babylon- beginning of exile

Question 20

538 BCE

Answer 20

Persian King Cyrus allows return of Jews to Jerusalem

Question 21

333 bce

Answer 21

Beginning of Hellenistic Period (greek)

Question 22

63 bce

Answer 22

Beginning of Roman Period

Question 23

37-4 bce

Answer 23

Reign of Herod the Great

Question 24

27-30 ce

Answer 24

Public activity and death of Jesus

Question 25

66-70 ce

Answer 25

Jewish Revolt against Roman Empire

Question 26

70 ce

Answer 26

Destruction of second temple and Jerusalem by Romans

Question 27

132-135 ce

Answer 27

The Bar Kochba Revolt against Rome

Question 28

320 ce

Answer 28

Edict of Constantine, legalizing Christianity

Question 29

624 ce

Answer 29

Muslim conquest of Jerusalem

Question 30

1099 CE

Answer 30

Crusader conquest of Jerusalem

Question 31

1197 CE

Answer 31

Muslim Reconquest of Jerusalem

Question 32

1453 ce

Answer 32

Fall of Constantinople/Byzantine Empire

Question 33

1517-1917

Answer 33

Ottoman Empire

Question 34

1918-1948

Answer 34

British Mandate

Question 35

1948-1967

Answer 35

Independent Israel; West Bank (and East Jerusalem) part of Jordan

Question 36

1967

Answer 36

Six Day War

Question 37

1945

Answer 37

End of WW2 and revelation of Holocaust

Question 38

1947

Answer 38

UN Partiton Plan to divide Palestine into two nations

Question 39

1948

Answer 39

The Israeli-Arab war that led to the founding of Israel

Question 40

1967

Answer 40

the six day war in which Israel took control of (occupied) the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights

Question 41

1973

Answer 41

Yom Kippur War

Question 42

1978-79

Answer 42

Camp David Peace Accords- return of Sinai Peninsula to Egypt in exchange for peace

Question 43

1987-93

Answer 43

The First Intifada (uprising)

Question 44

1993

Answer 44

Oslo Peace Accords-Interim self-gov on the road to two state solution

Question 45

2000-2005

Answer 45

Second Intifada

Question 46

2005

Answer 46

Construction of Security Wall