A Craddle of Civilization

A  Craddle of Civilization

Israel and its neighbors are in the area of the Fertile Crescent. The civilization in this area began practicing agriculture, they developed new tools for farming, for example: Plows

The villages these agricultors had built grew into being towns. One of the oldest being Jericho still exists today and is now called the West Bank.

The origins of Judaism

In the present day Israel and Palestinian Territories were once called Canaan. The people in Canaan were pagans meaning they worship multiple Gods. People known as Israelites moved into the region of Canaan, the Israelites practiced monontheism meaning they would only worship one God, the religion of Israelites came to be known as Judaism.

 The Israelites rejected the Caanites so they left to Egypt but they were enslaved by them, according to the Bible, Moses, a prophet went to Egypt to free Israelites from the Pharaoh power and guided them to Jerusalem, howerver Jerusalem, known as the Israelite Kingdom of Judah at the time, was conquered by the Babylonia Empire in 587 B.C.

The Babylonian Empire destroyed the Temple of Jerusalem and kept captive many Judah people, however Persian Empire defeated Babylonian Empire and all the Judah scattered in a diaspora. After this the Judad began calling themselves Jews. The Region eventually came under control of the Roman Empire which forced Jews to pay massive amount of money in taxes, also killed thousands of Jews throughout this time. Many Jews fled the region and the Romans banned the entrance of Jews to Jerusalem.