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| Who were the first people in the eastern mediterranean to proacitce monotheism? |
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| Who were the first people in the eastern mediterranean to proacitce monotheism? |
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| What was the population of the Hebrews adn Assyrians like? |
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| lightly populated and politically weak |
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| Why are the Hebrews adn Assyrians important? |
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| for a intfluential religious innovation |
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| Did the Hebrews and Assyrians have a lot of cities? |
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| What were most Assyrian and Hebrew tools made of? |
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| stone, bronze and occasionally iron |
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| Were the earliest hebrews monotheistic? |
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| When did a complex Hebrew society develop? |
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| between 1000 and 9000 BCE |
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| What is proof of the Hebrews' development into a complex society? |
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| formation of large urban centers with walls and gates |
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| Why were the two kingdoms of the Hebrews seperates? |
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| one group worshipped Yahweh as one among other gods, the other worshiped him as the most important gods |
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| What were the two kingdoms of the Hebrews called? |
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| When did the Assyrians conquer southern Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel? |
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| Why were the assyrians great warriors? |
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| they had excelent iron weapons and calvary |
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| When were the assyrians defeated and by whom? |
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| What would the Assyrians do with the peoplet they conquered? |
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| Who was the most powerful king of Babylon? |
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| What did babylon do under the rule of Nebuchadnezzar? |
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| expanded the empire, sacked jerusalem twice and resettled thousands of hebrews in babylon |
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| Babylonian captivity/exile |
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| the resettlement of thousands of Hebrews in Babylon, were not allowed to return to Israel, developed a new view of the past |
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| What new way did the Hebrews have of seeing things after their exile in Babylon? |
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| yahweh was punishing them for not worshiping him as the sole god |
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