Chapter Test 2 Flashcards
Where was the Jewish Civilization located in ancient times?
Between Egypt and Mesopotamia.
The Jewish people were first conquered and ruled by the ____, and then the _____ would invade.
Egyptians, Babylonians.
What is a “monotheistic herdsman”?
Monotheism: The doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
Herdsman: A man who herds, tends, or manages livestock.
In what ways did the Ancient Jews make history rather than being part of history?
“They didn’t just become part of history, they made history—and by that I mean they shaped the course of all history to come. And this special something was their religion.”
Which of the following would the Ancient Jews NOT describe their God as creating?
Songs and stories.
Complete the sentiment: The Ancient Jewish God “was he who raged furiously against them in the storm, but he never _____.”
Abandoned his people.
Complete the sentiment: “And the songs of their deeds, which were the deeds of their god, are the _____.”
Old Testament of the Bible.
Where is the story of Abraham located, and where is Abraham from?
Genesis, Ur.
Abraham was probably alive at the same time as whom?
King Hammurabi.
Name This Biblical Story: “God was angry at their pride and stopped them … by making them all speak different languages so that they could no longer understand one another.”
The Tower of Babel.
What is the Tower of Babel about?
Babylonian ziggurats.
Which biblical figure was sold yet became a counselor and minister to the pharaoh?
Joseph, Son of Jacob.
Name the Biblical Book: “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor: and they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in mortar and in brick…”
Exodus.
“In the end ____ led [the Jews] out of Egypt into the desert … From there they tried to win back the promised land—that is, the land in which their ancestors had lived since the time of Abraham.”
Moses.
“And finally, after long, cruel, and bloody battles, they succeeded. So now they had their own small kingdom, with its capital: ______.”
Jerusalem.
The Jews’ “first king was _____, who fought against a neighboring tribe, the _______, and died on the battlefield.”
Saul, Philistines.
“______ was a wise and just king who ruled soon after 1000 BC” and who “built the first Temple of Jerusalem.”
Solomon.
What was found at the innermost part of the Jewish temple?
“Whereas in the innermost part of the Jewish temple—the Holy of Holies—there was no image at all. For of the God, whose first appearance in the history of the world was to the people of the Jews—God, the Almighty, the One and Only God—no image could or might be made. All that was there were the tablets of the Laws with their Ten Commandments. In these God had represented himself.”
What were the names of the two kingdoms that arose after Solomon’s reign?
The Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah.
Choose the vocabulary that best fits. These people who _____ to their flocks eventually sang a better and stronger and more ______ god whom they worshiped.
Tended, exalted.
Choose the vocabulary that best fits: “No where else will you find so many stories about the ancient times so ____ told” because of how clear and intense the storytelling is.
Vividly.
Choose the vocabulary that best fits: Deep inside the ___ temples, there were images of other gods, and through the word of the Jewish people’s ____, they heard again and again about their own suffering.
Heathen, prophets.
Choose the vocabulary that best fits: “And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with ___: and they made their lives ____ with hard _____.”
Rigor, bitter, bondage.
In the book of ____, Moses led his people out of Egypt into the desert.
Exodus.
Which of the following things did King Nebuchadnezzar NOT do?
Destroyed the city of Judah.
“Near __________ somebody was once digging a pit when they came across a bone, deep down under the ground. It was a human bone. A lower jaw.”
Heidelberg, in Germany.
How did the skull discovered in Germany differ from our human skulls?
Instead of a forehead like ours, it just had two thick ridges above the eyebrows.
What gives “prehistory” its name?
It comes before history.
Which examples of materials did scientists find that change slowly but regularly over a very long period of time?
Woods, plants, and volcanic rocks.
Why do historians call it the “Stone Age”?
When humans first started using stone.
About how long did the Neanderthal people inhabit the earth?
Two hundred thousand years.
About how long ago did the Neanderthal people appear in prehistory before our ancestors?
Seventy thousand years earlier.
What was the climate like during The Stone Age?
Winters were longer and summers were shorter.
