unit 2

4000–550 BC Abrahams Genealogy

4000 BCE

1400 B.C.E. This is when sea routes start to replace land routes.

1400 BCE

1400 B.C.E. This is when sea routes start to replace land routes. (Hinduism)

1400 BCE

Judaism - The Hebrew leader Abraham founded Judaism in Mesopotamia around 1300 B.C. Judaism is the oldest of the monotheistic faiths (religions with one God).

1300 BCE

Within 150 years of Muhammad’s death in 632 AD, Islam had spread west to North Africa, and into present day Spain.

632 BCE

According to the Bible, the First Temple for Jewish worship was built around 900-1000 BCE and destroyed by Babylonians in 586 BCE.

586 BCE

A new temple was finished 70 years later on the site of the First Temple, but was badly plundered by invading Romans about 54 BCE.

54 BCE

Christianity - Founded by Jesus Christ, who was crucified around A.D. 33 in Palestine in the city of Jerusalem. It was after his death when his followers came to believe in him as the Christ, the Messiah.

33 BCE

In Russia…Mongol forces successfully attacked Russia in 1224 by defeating Kiev Rus.

1224

Kiev was taken by 1240

1240

Mansa Musa died in 1337

1337

Jews moved away from the land again, until the modern state of Israel was formed in the late 1940s

1940