Slideshow - Maddie and Max by Madelyn Capozzi

Settling in Israel (1600 BCE)

mkopf3_1 — 2024-01-26 18:17:09 UTC

By 1600 BCE, the Israelites made it to Israel. This is significant because Israel is the holy land for Jews.

1000-720 b.c.e.

mcapozzi4 — 2024-01-26 18:17:31 UTC

By around 1000 b.c.e., the Israelite nation had been established as a monarchy with Jerusalem as its capital. Around 930 b.c.e., the kingdom split into 2 Israels in the north, consisting of ten tribes, and Judah in the south, made up of two tribes. The kingdom of Israel was then conquered by Assyrians around 720 b.c.e., scattering its inhabitants to neighboring regions.

586-539 b.c.e.

mcapozzi4 — 2024-01-26 18:21:53 UTC

The kingdom of Judah fell into the hands of the Babylonians, who destroyed the temple and exiled the people to Babylon. This began the Jewish diaspora to different parts of the world. Around 539 b.c.e., the Persians conquered the Babylonian empire, including Jerusalem. About twenty years after this, the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great allowed some Jews to return to Jerusalem.

Israelites leaving to Egypt (1520 BCE)

mkopf3_1 — 2024-01-26 18:22:38 UTC

Around 1520 BCE there was a large famine in Israel and the Israelites left to Egypt. After about 100 years the Egyptians started treating them like slaves so God sent Moses to lead them out of Egypt and to the promised land. This is significant a significant event because it is also a significant story in the bible.

141 - 63 b.c.e.

mcapozzi4 — 2024-01-26 18:25:16 UTC

Through a revolt against their Greek rulers, the Jews regained independence for Judea and established a dynasty of their own. Judaism thrived for the next 80 years until the Romans conquered Jerusalem and annexed the land of Israel in 63 b.c.e.

1095 - 1258 b.c.e.

mcapozzi4 — 2024-01-26 18:28:52 UTC

Starting around 1095, a series of religious wars took place between Christians and Muslims. Christian forces tried to take the Holy Land from the Muslims. This ended up destroying Jewish communities in Europe along the way. When this finally ended, many Jews had been killed, forced to convert, or forced to migrate to escape persecution.

638 BCE

mkopf3_1 — 2024-01-26 18:33:41 UTC

The Islamic empire led by Caliph Umar captured Jerusalem. This new ruler didn't require non-Muslims to convert to Islam. This was significant because Jews faced a lot of oppression and often times new rulers would force citizens to follow their religion, but this time the new ruler didn't.

1490 - 1517

mcapozzi4 — 2024-01-26 18:34:27 UTC

In the 1490s, Spain passed from the Islamic empire to Christian rulers, these rulers ordered Jews to either convert to Christianity or be expelled. In the following decades, tens of thousands of Jews moved to territories held by the Ottomans, including Jerusalem, which Ottoman forces captured in 1517.

1800s

mkopf3_1 — 2024-01-26 18:47:14 UTC

In the 1800s Reform Judaism started in Germany. It spread to other parts of the United States. This is significant because it created several other branches of Judaism like Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform

1939

mkopf3_1 — 2024-01-26 18:49:59 UTC

In 1939 World War II started. During this was Jews faced serious oppression and the Holocaust was during this time. This is when Jews were sent to extermination camps and it resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews.