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A man named abraham makes a covenant with Yahweh and has found Judaism
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Abraham's grandson have 12 sons who will lead the tribes of Israel and eventually the jews went to egypt to escape famine
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in 1200 BC a Prophet named Moses starts an exodus to free the jews from captivity and he eventually creates the 10 commandments
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For the next 200 years the Jews fought Philistines and Canaanites for control of the land
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They united into one kingdom under king Saul and was succeded by David who made the kingdom great and built a city called Jerusalem
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Israel is split into two kingdoms conquered by the Assyrians and Babylonians and eventually by alexander the Great
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Judah Maccabe rebelled and succeeded in expelling the greeks and establishing an independent Jewish kingdom until the Romans conquered it and Chanukah is celebrated for this event