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Name: ___________________________________________ Period __________
GEOGRAPHY DO NOW 8-26-14
Directions: (USING PENCIL PLEASE!) Read & Complete all of the activities on the day they are
assigned & do not work ahead. If you complete the assignments before the assigned date, you may
receive a zero. Please take good notes when we go over the DO NOW.
TUESDAY 26
DIRECTIONS: In your textbook, first read pages 180-181, starting at “A
CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION.” Then, answer the questions below! 
1. FILL IN BLANKS FROM PAGE 180: Present-day _____________ and the ______________________
Territories were once called _________________
2. What does it mean that the people of Canaan were PAGAN?
3. After 2000BC, a people known as ___________________ moved into the region.
4. Unlike the Canaanites, the _______________________ worshipped only ______________.
5. Their religion came to be known as ____________________
1. FILL IN BLANKS FROM PAGE 181: The Israelites practiced ____________________ or the belief in
one God.
2. According to the _______________ or Jewish Bible, _________________ was the father of the Jewish
people. According to the Bible God promised that Abraham would found a great nation in Canaan.
3. Abraham’s grandson Jacob, later called Israel, had 12 sons. Their families would form the people
known as ______________________
4. During this time, according to the Bible, God gave Moses a law code including the
_________________________.
5. The Israelites took control in Canaan and established ________________________________ of Israel
6. Captivity in Babylonia was the start of the Jewish _______________________, or scattering.
7. The Romans destroyed _______________________ in AD 70 and later killed thousands of Jews. Many
Jews fled the region (this continued the Diaspora) and the Romans _____________ Jews from
Jerusalem
Wednesday 27
c. 1900 BC
Judaism
DIRECTIONS: Turn to page 186 in your textbooks and copy the timeline onto
this page. Copy all symbols too. Color them in!! 
AD 1948
State of
AD 35
Christianity
AD 638
Arabs
1. (Approximately) How many years are between the start of Judaism and the start of Christianity?
2. How many years are between the start of Christianity and when the Arabs conquer Jerusalem (The
Promised Land)?
3. How long ago was the State of Israel founded?
Directions: Turn to page 178 in your textbooks and study the map at the top of the page!! 
1. What is the Title of the Map?
2. How many religions are mentioned in the KEY of the map?
3. We circled this region (or something VERY close to it) on a map on the back of your “Birth of Judaism”
reading. List the 5 other names we know for “Israel”.
4. What two religions do you see in the nation of ISRAEL? (Include the West Bank and the Gaza Strip)
5. Where do you see Christians?
6. The Muslim Faith (religion) split into two groups, Sunni and Shia, at the time of Mohammad’s death
(Mohammad was the “final prophet” according to Muslims). Which group is represented more on this
map?