Bellringer Quiz:

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Bellringer Quiz

• Answer the following questions
• What is the name given to a group of people who
  wander?
• How did the Hebrews earn a living?
• What were three materials that the Hebrews were
  famous for working with?

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Answers

1. Nomad
2. Trading and Herding
3. Gold, Copper, and Ivory

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Guess the meaning
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Whats the Difference?
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Mono and Poly

• Look at your prefixes
• Mono- the term mono means one or singular.
• Poly- the term poly means more than one

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Polytheism

• Take a minute on a piece of paper and try to
  figure out what the term polytheism means.

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Answer

• Polytheism is the worship of many gods.
• Which civilizations that we studied worshiped
  more than one god?

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Monotheism

• Belief in only one God.
• Why are you telling us this Yarnell?

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One and Only One

• The Hebrews were the first civilization that
  believed in one and only one god. All other
  religions of the time believed in more than one
  god.

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Another name for a god

• Take two minutes use anyone in the classroom
  ,except me, to determine another name for a god.

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What is another name for a god?

• Another name given to a god is a deity.
• Deity- any supernatural being worshiped as
  controlling some part of the world or some aspect
  of life or who is the personification of a force.
  

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Easier of Harder

• Did having one god make life easier or harder for
  the Hebrews?
• How did the rest of the world react to the
  Hebrews only having one god?

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A new religion is born

• Judaism- the monotheistic religion of the Jews
  having its spiritual and ethical principles
  embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.

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Religious Writings

• Torah- the entire body of Jewish religious
  literature, law and teaching as contained chiefly
  in the Old Testament and Talmud.

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Religious Writings Cont.

• Talmud- The Jewish library of oral law and
  tradition.

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Hebrew God

• The Hebrews called their god, Yahweh.

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Closure

• Today we learned about polytheism, monotheism,
  deity, and the reasons the Hebrew religion was
  different from the rest of the worlds.