Ch 4 People of Ancient Middle East

In the desert, Moses showed the Jews two large stones with ten _____ written on them.

The Phoenicians were the first people to use an _____ for writing.

The Jews were forced to build tombs and __________.

The Persians built many good _____ in the countries they ruled.

The Phoenicians became a great _____ power by the year 1000BC

Another group, the Persians, conquered most of the Middle _____

The ______ had food in difficult times because they had saved food in large buildings.

The Jews wrote down their history in a book called the ______

Today, part of the land of Palestine is called ___________

The Jews lived in a land that became known as _______.

One Persian _____ said the Jews could go back to Palestine.

The ten laws were called the ______ Commandments.

The Persians ruled the Middle East for more than ____ years.

The Phoenicians built good ____ to sail to many far off places.

The Jews had their own religion called ___________

People who believe in Judaism believe in only ____ god.

The Phoenician alphabet only had _____ letters.

The laws teach people to be kind, fair and be _______.

Around 1200BB, a man named ________ became the leader of the Jews in Egypt.

Moses and the Jews left Egypt and went into the desert for ___ years.

The Phoenicians and the Jews lived near the _______ Sea.

The _____ took control of Babylonia and most of Middle East.

After the Jews were in the ________ for forty years, they conquered Palestine.

The Persians were ____ rulers and they were fair to the people they conquered.

So the Jews left Palestine and went to live in _______.

Other people of the Middle East believed in ______ gods.

The laws later became part of another religion called ______.

The Egyptian pharaoh made the Jews work as ______.