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Jeopardy 08
Near Eastern Worlds and the Rise of Christianity
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Main occupation of Phoenicians
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sea trading
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Timber used to build Phoenician ships and for trade
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cedar
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Basic political division in Phoenicia
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city-states
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Landforms that physically separated the different groups of Phoenicians
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mountains
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Phoenicians used these to protect their cities
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walls
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Centers of activity in a Phoenician city
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port
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A skill the Phoenicians were renowned for
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seafaring, trading, and shipbuilding
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Early Phoenician herding peoples who came from the desert
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Canaanites
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Early rulers of Phoenician city-states
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kings/ high priests
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Expensive Phoenician item much sought after in trade
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purple dye
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Phoenicia's permanent settlements in faraway places
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colonies
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Phoenicia's most important contribution to Western culture
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alphabet
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Phoenicians spread this throughout the Mediterranean world
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Middle Eastern culture
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Egyptian method of preserving dead bodies, adopted by the Phoenicians
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embalming
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Continent that Phoenicians may have sailed around
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Africa
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Phoenician kings had to share power with these bodies
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councils of merchants
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Shellfish that was the source of Phoenicia's purple dye
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murex
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A Phoenician princess, who was the legendary founder of Carthage
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Dido
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Natural resource Phoenicia lacked and had to trade for
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minerals
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Phoenician gods
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Baals
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Large Mediterranean island with a Phoenician colony, a center of trade
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Silicy, Sardinia, Malta, Cyprus
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Religion of the Hebrews
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Judaism
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The Hebrews' different idea about God
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one god only
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Leader who brought the Hebrews out of Egypt
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Moses
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God's laws as given to Moses
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Ten Commandments
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Land Moses led the Hebrews to
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Promised Land
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The Hebrews' God
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Yahweh
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Leader who brought the Hebrews to Canaan in about 1900 B.C.E.
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Abraham
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The Hebrews' journey out of Egypt
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Exodus
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Binding agreement between God and Abraham
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covenant
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The two main occupations of the Hebrews in Canaan
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farming and sheepherding
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King who established Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and wrote many psalms
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David
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Wise king who built a huge temple at Jerusalem
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Solomon
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Spiritual leaders who delivered messages from God to the people
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prophets
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Jewish teachers
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rabbis
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Most sacred Hebrew text; its five books record the early history and laws of the Hebrews
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Torah
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Portion of the Bible that tells the story of the Hebrews
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Old Testament
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Peoples the Hebrews fought for Canaan
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Canaanites or Philistines
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The Hebrew people's 12 divisions
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tribes
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Leaders of the 12 tribes
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judges
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First king of the Hebrews
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Saul
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Ethical basis of Jewish society
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social justice or the rule of law
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Three Hebrew prophets who have books of the Bible named after them (7)
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Elijah, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah, Micah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel
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Christ, the Messiah
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Jesus
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People among whom Christianity began
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Jews
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How Jesus was put to death
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crucifixion
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People who controlled Palestine when Jesus lived
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Romans
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The savior the Jews waited for
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Messiah
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The archbishop of Rome, head of the Latin church
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pope
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Main message of Jesus
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love one another
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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
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Golden Rule
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Rising from the dead, as Jesus is said to have done
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resurrection
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What Jesus said his relationship to God was
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Son of God
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Religious practice early Christians refused to follow
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honoring the emperor as a god
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Title that some Jews gave Jesus, which alarmed the Romans
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King of the Jews
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The Latin churches as a group, after the split of C.E. 1504
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Roman Catholic Church
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The Greek churches as a group, after the split of C.E. 1504
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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Portion of the Bible that tells about the life and teachings of Jesus
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New Testament
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The four books of the Bible about the life of Jesus
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Gospels
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Roman emperor in power during Jesus' life
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Augustus
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First Christian missionary to the gentiles; a former persecutor of Christians
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Paul
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Disaster that was blamed on the Christians
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Great Roman Fire of C.E. 64
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Roman emperor who encourages the growth of Christianity
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Constantine I
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Decree that made Christianity legal in C.E. 313
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Edict of Milan
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Emperor who made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire
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Theodosius
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Village birthplace of Jesus
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Bethlehem
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Town where Jesus grew up
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Nazareth
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Western boundary of Phoenicia and Palestine
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Mediterranean Sea
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Loose union of city-states; nation of seafarers
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Phoenicia
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Land the Hebrews left under the leadership of Moses
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Egypt
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Body of water the Hebrews crossed during their exodus
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Red Sea
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Hebrew capital city; site of Solomon's temple
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Jerusalem
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Land where Christianity developed and Hebrews lived
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Palestine
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Phoenicia's city-states (4)
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Tyre, Sidon, Bablos, Berytus (Beirut)
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Phoenicia's greatest colony
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Carthage
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Area where Carthage was located
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North Africa
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Land the Hebrews first settled in and later returned to
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Canaan
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Mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God
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Mount Sinai
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Northern Hebrew kingdom
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Israel
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Southern Hebrew kingdom
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Judah
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Palestine's major river
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Jordan
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Land to which the people of Judah were forced to move in 586 B.C.E.
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Babylon
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Modern country that includes part of Phoenicia
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Lebanon or Syria
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Modern country that includes part of Palestine
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Israel or Jordan
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Mountains that bordered Phoenicia on the east
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Lebanon Mountains
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Modern country where Carthage once was located
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Tunisia
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Land the Hebrews first migrated from
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Ur, in Mesopotamia
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Desert land the Hebrews first came to after leaving Egypt
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Sinai Peninsula or Desert
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