The Israelites

This rabbi founded a school in the town of Yavneh to teach the Torah, after he persuaded the Romans to spare the city.

• Simon ben Kosiba

• Yohanan ben Zaccai

• Moses

• Judas Maccabeus

Whom did the Israelites ask to choose a king for them?

• Samuel

• Saul

• Daniel

• David

Which group developed a mixed culture while living among the Israelites?

• prophets

• Romans

• monotheists

• Samaritians

Wanted Canaan to control the trade routes across that country.

• Palestine

• Assyrians and Chaldeans

• Diaspora

• Babylonian Exile

True or False

The ancestors of the ancient Israelites were Abraham and his family

Period of time when the Judeans were sent to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar

• Assyrians and Chaldeans

• Diaspora

• the Ten Commandments

• Babylonian Exile

Jews who lived out of Judah; Greek word that means "scattered"

• Palestine

• Assyrians and Chaldeans

• the Ten Commandments

• Diaspora

Formed the basic moral rules for many nations

• Palestine

• Assyrians and Chaldeans

• the Ten Commandments

• Diaspora

True or False

David and his army defeated the Greeks

True or False

The Essenes were priests who broke away from the Temple in Jerusalem and lived in Qumran near the Dead Sea