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minoans | a seafaring and trading people that lived on the island of Crete from 2000 to 1400 BCE, great pottery producers, capital is Knossos |
Agean sea | where crete is, near greece and mediterranean sea |
knossos | minoan capital, had advanced and thriving culture, did not have fortifications |
king minos | king of minoans, owned half-human, half-bull monster called the minotaur and kept it in a labyrinth |
phoenicians | a seafaring people of southwest asia, who around 1100 BCE began to trade and established colonies throughout the mediterranian region, ruled after minoans died out |
palestine | a region at the eastern end of the mediterranean sea, where the phoenicians lived |
canaan | the ancient home of the hebrews, in the palestine area |
torah | the first five books of the hebrew bible-the most sacred writings in the jewish tradition |
abraham | father of the hebrew people, in the torah God chose him, shephard that lived in Ur, God commanded him to move to Canaan |
monotheism | the belief in one god |
covenant | a mutual promise or agreement, espically btwn God and the hebrew people/abraham. ex. abraham and God made a covenant for abraham to follow God's orders and for God to protect abraham |
moses | the man who lead the hebrews out of slavery in egypt, raised by an egyptian princess and raised as royalty, God told him to lead his people out of egypt, got 10 commantments at mt. sinai |
israel | a kingdom of the united hebrews in palestine, had 3 kings, saul, david, and solomon, seperated in 922 BCE into israel in the north and judah in the south.0 |
judah | southern hebrew kingdom when israel split in 922 BCE |
tribute | a payment made by a weaker power to a stronger power to keep the peace. ex. judah and israel paid tribute to the aryans |