| A | B |
|---|
| Canaan | the Hebrews settled here |
| Bible | the holy book of the Hebrews |
| Abraham | God spoke to him and told him to take the Hebrews from Sumer to Canaan |
| drought | this time of no food/water struck Canaan and caused the Hebrews to go to Egypt for more food |
| Moses | led the Hebrews out of Egypt; God gave him the 10 Commandments |
| Israel | the 12 Hebrew tribes were united into this kingdom |
| Jerusalem | the capital city of the Kingdom of Israel |
| synagogue | place where Jews worship and pray |
| rabbis | leaders of the synagogues |
| Judaism | the religion of the Jews |
| monotheism | the belief in only one God |
| ethical | Jews are expected to live this type of life |
| help others | one of God's expectations of the Jews |
| Torah | the first five books of the Bible |
| Ten Commandments | the most important laws from the Bible |
| Islam and Christianity | religions based on the teachings of Judaism |
| Phoenicia | a narrow strip on land on the Mediterranean Sea, with the Lebanon Mountains above |
| Phoenicians | the first great sea-going traders of the ancient world |
| wood, glass, cloth, iron, furniture, jewelry | trade goods that the Phoenicians made and traded with others |
| ships | form of transport for Phoenician trade |
| colonies | Phoenician trading posts grew into these on the Mediterranean Sea |
| Carthage | the largest Phoenician colony, located in North Africa |
| alphabet | created by the Phoenicians to write a language |
| Russian, English, Hebrew, Arabic | modern languages based on the Phoenician alphabet |
| Lebanon Mountains | where the Phoenicians obtained the wood for constructing their ships |
