The Israelites

In Social Studies we are learning about the Early Israelites. We learned about how the Israelite's religion. Also we are learning about graphic organizers. We also know life was not good in Egypt at that time because Israelites where taken to build pyramids for the pharoah. They believed in one God which is our present day God. The belief in one God is called monotheism. Ideas the Jews had was the believe in one God, The 10 commandments, and the Torah.

(The Phoenicians were a group of Canaanites. They lived along the Mediterranean Sea. The Phoenicians were very skilled at sailing and trading. One of their important ideas was the alphabet. The alphabet is a group of letters that stand for sounds. Today, we still use the idea.)

It took the Israelites around 40 years to actually reach the city of Canaan(The Promised Land) . During those 40 years Moses had obtained the 10 commandmeants on Mount Sinai from God. Moses never lived to actually see The Promised Land. God punished Moses because he "literally" broke the commandments. Moses broke them to stop the Israelites from rebelling against him. God punished him in 2 ways. The first way was that God didn't allow Moses to see The Promised Land. The second way, and the most important, was that God took his life.....

Canaan was inhabited by people when the Israelites arrived there. In order to get back to The Promised Land, they had to fight the Canaanites. Joshua, the one who led the Israelites to Canaan, led them to the city of Jericho. There, they marched around the walls for 6 days, while the priests blew there trumpets. On the 7th day, the trumpets sounded one last time. Then Joshua told the Israelites to make a great shout. When they did, the walls crumbled and the Israelites overrun the city.