Midterm

Question 1

1200-1000 BCE

Answer 1

Israelite tribal confederacy said to form

Question 2

1000 BCE

Answer 2

Israelite Kingdom said to be established

Question 3

721 BCE

Answer 3

Northern Kingdom Israel fails

Question 4

587 BCE

Answer 4

Southern kingdom Judah fails

Question 5

538 BCE

Answer 5

Exiles return from Babylonia

Question 6

515 BCE

Answer 6

Second Temple dedicated

Question 7

332 BCE

Answer 7

Alexander the Great conquers Palestine

Question 8

160s BCE

Answer 8

Maccabean uprising

Question 9

63 BCE

Answer 9

Roman general Pompey conquers Judaea

Question 10

37-4 BCE

Answer 10

Herod the Great’s reign

Question 11

70 CE

Answer 11

Titus conquers Jerusalem and destroys the Second Temple

Question 12

135 CE

Answer 12

Bar Kokhba Revolt

Question 13

2nd to 6th Centuries

Answer 13

Period of Classical Rabbis

Question 14

7th to 11th Centuries

Answer 14

Period of Geonim

Question 15

Mid 7th Century

Answer 15

Pact of Umar

Question 16

Late 800s - mid 900s

Answer 16

Saadya Gaon

Question 17

Late 700s

Answer 17

Founding of Karaism

Question 18

800s-1100s

Answer 18

Documents preserved in Cairo Geniza

Question 19

1138-1204

Answer 19

Maimonides

Question 20

1492

Answer 20

The Inquisition/ Expulsion of Jews from Spain

Question 21

1500s

Answer 21

Rise of Ottoman Jewish centers: Constantinople, Salonica, Smyrna, Palestine; Rise of Eastern European Jewish centers: Lublin, Cracow

Question 22

1581

Answer 22

“Council of the Four Lands” first convened for autonomous Jewish communities of Poland-Lithuania

Question 23

1729-1786

Answer 23

Moses Mendelssohn/ Beginning of Haskalah

Question 24

1840-1910

Answer 24

Main German Jewish immigration to US (about 250,000 people)

Question 25

1890-1910

Answer 25

Main Eastern European Jewish immigration to US (about 1.5 million)