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| Canaan | Eastern Mediterranean land in which Abraham resettled around 1800 B.B. |
| Israel | Jewish kingdom founded by David around 1000B.C; a country in southwestern Asia |
| Jerusalem | the capital of the kingdom of Israel |
| Judah | the southern region of Israel that abecame its own kingdom after the death of Solomon |
| Carthage | important Phoenician trading post in North Africa |
| Abraham | A shephered livinginUr who is considered by Jewish people to be the first Jew c. 1800 B.C. |
| Moses | Hebrew prophet and teacher who led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt and received the Ten Commandments from God c. 1400 B.C. --1200 B.C. |
| Deborah | Female judge who encouraged a military leader to gather the peoples of Israel to attack the Canaanites |
| David | Second king of Israel who unified the kingdom of Israel 1030 -- 965 B.C. |
| Solomon | son of David and King of Israel 1000B.C |
| covenant | an agreement |
| monotheism | the worship of only one God |
| slavery | the practice of one person owning another person |
| decendant | a person born later into the same family |
| synagogue | a Jewisplace of worship |
| barter | to exchange one kind of good or service for another |
| Judaism | the monotheistic religon founded by Abraham |
| Ten Commandments | a set of laws that provides guidance for the worship of God and rules for moral behavior |
| Torah | the first five books of the Hebrew Bible |
