We’re not in Kansas anymore! Study Tips / Helps Portfolio – 1 and 2 Extra Credit Make Up Exam What Now?

•We’re not in Kansas anymore!•Study Tips / Helps•Portfolio – 1 and 2•Extra Credit•Make Up Exam

What Now?

•Place

•Period (era)

•People

The story of how one English teacher

changed her world

The Wonderful World of the Old

Testament

The Fertile Crescent

Mesopotamia

Syria-Palestine

Nile Delta (Egypt)

The Wonderful World of the Old

Testament

The Fertile Crescent

MesopotamiaEastern end of the

crescent, lies between the Tigris

and Euphrates

Mesopotamian Cultures

SumeriansFirst significant civilization in

human history (3000 BC)

Cuneiform (wedge-shaped writing)

Mesopotamian Cultures

AkkadiansLeadership of

Sargon the Great

(2300 BC)

Mesopotamian Cultures

AmoritesMesopotamia and

Syria-Palestine

(1800 BC)

Mesopotamian Cultures

HittitesCentral part of

Asia Minor

(2000 - 1700 BC)

Mesopotamian Cultures

AssyriansNorthern

MesopotamiaCapital City: Nineveh

Captured Northern Kingdom of Israel

(8th & 7th centuries BC)

Mesopotamian Cultures

BabyloniansSouthern

MesopotamiaCapital City: Babylon

Took the Jews into exile in 587 BC

(7th – 6th centuries BC)

Mesopotamian Cultures

PersiansLast Mesopotamian power of OT times

(6th – 4th centuries BC)335 BC – conquered by

Alexander the Great

Syria-Palestine Cultures

CanaanitesPrimary

inhabitants of Palestine

(3000 BC onward)

Syria-Palestine Cultures

PhilistinesPrimary

inhabitants of the coastal plainPentapolis

(1200 - 1000 BC)

Syria-Palestine Cultures

•Phoenicians•Arameans•Ammonites•Moabites•Edomites•Midianites•Amalekites

Nile Delta - Egypt

•Old Kingdom (2900 - 2300 BC)

•Middle Kingdom (2100 - 1710 BC)

New Kingdom (1550 - 330 BC)

Geography of Palestine

•Coastal Plain (Lebanon to Gaza)

•Central Hill Country (Galilee to Negev) (Galilee, Samaria, Judah)

•Jordan Valley (Sea of Galilee to Dead Sea)

•Plateau of Transjordan (Bashan to

Gilead)

Read Chapter 4, Textbook Israel Looks at Beginnings: Genesis (pp. 63-77)

Read Genesis 1-11 in your Bible (pp. 5-26)