1. Chapter 2 Section 3
Day 3

2. New Centers of Civilization
Around 1200 B.C., several smaller groups, including the Phoenicians and the Israelites, established small kingdoms and city-states.

3. -invented an alphabet that was passed on to the Greeks.
The Phoenicians:
-improved their ships and built an extensive trading empire and colonies.
-invented an alphabet that was passed on to the Greeks.

4. The Israelites:
-a minor political force, but they created a world religion known today as Judaism.
-The kingdom of Israel divided into two separate kingdoms, but multiple back to back defeats by invaders ended political independence, and Judaism became a stateless religion.
-The Jews were monotheistic and believed that a covenant required obedience to the law of God. This law had been revealed to them during the exodus from Egypt.

5. The golden age of Israelite prophecy began in the mid-eighth century B
The golden age of Israelite prophecy began in the mid-eighth century B.C. Both within the kingdom and in exile, prophets developed new concepts that became a source for universal ideals of social justice.