Across
- 2. gave Canaan or Palestine to the Hebrews about 1800 B.C.
- 6. messengers God sent to reveal his will to the Hebrews
- 7. these people added symbols for vowel sounds to Phoenician alphabet
- 8. conquered Israel and exiled thousands of Hebrews to distant corners of their empire
- 11. set of religious and moral laws
- 13. carriers of civilization
- 15. a system of set prices based on money rather than barter
- 16. - believed like the Hebrews that individuals had to make a choice between good and evil
- 17. freed the Hebrews from captivity
- 19. Testament Hebrews preserved their early history in a sacred text
Down
- 1. - belief in one God
- 3. color of dye made from tiny sea snails
- 4. migrated into the Jordan River valley of Palestine after 2000 B.C.
- 5. one of the the Hebrews most important leaders an chief law giver
- 9. name of the Hebrews five books of the Old Testament
- 10. seized Judah in 587 B>C> and destroyed the temple in Jerusalem
- 12. Phoenicians 22 symbols that represented a single consonant
- 14. introduced coined money as a medium of exchange in trade
- 18. transformed the city of Jerusalem into a magnificent capital