Pages 142-149 The Jews in the Mediterranean World

Jews in Judah under Persian rule for about ____________ years

• 200
• 20
• 2
• 2000

331 BCE _____________from Macedonia defeated Persians

• Alexander the Great
• Judas Maccabeus
• Seleucids
• Nebuchadnezzar

___________________”scattered”=Jews living outside of homeland

• Diaspora
• Septuagint
• Seleucids
• Maccabees

The Bible was translated into Greek and called the ________________. It spread Jewish ideas

• Septuagint
• Diaspora
• Seleucids
• Maccabees

______controlled Judah 200 BCE

• Septuagint
• Diaspora
• Seleucids
• Maccabees

Antiochus IV required the Jews to worship

• Greek Gods and Goddesses
• Pharoahs
• him (Antiochus IV)
• Ra the sun god

Jewish priest who led a rebellion against Seleucid rule

• Judas Maccabees
• Antiochus IV
• Alexander the Great
• Diaspora

The festival that celebrates the cleansing of the Temple of the statues of Greek Gods and Goddesses is called

• Hanukkah
• Passover
• Maccabeus
• Diaspora

Romans are from

• Italy
• Macedonia
• Greece
• Persia

Roman forces renamed Judah______

• Judaea
• Herod
• Diaspora
• Persia