World history -- 1. how were the minoans and the phoenicians able to build successful civilizations in the mediterranean sea? 2. how did monotheism play an important role in judaism? 3. who were abraham and moses? what important role did they have in the spread of judaism? 4. explain the division of solomon's kingdom and how this led to the babylon captivity.

1. The Minoans and the Phoenicians were able to build successful civilizations in the Mediterranean Sea, mostly because the principal characterist that both civilizations share: the trade. They learnt to trade and the economy were based on the enchange of goods and services. In the case of the Phoenicians, they developed navigation, building ships to go to other territories.

2. Born in a politeist culture, Abraham was innovating when he decided to believe in just one god. The monoteism plays a fundamental role in the judaism because is the centre of its beliefs, the reason fot the judaism to exist is the revelation that all other gods are fake and there is just one true god and that is the god that Abraham decide to follow. The ten commanments, which are the basic principles  that Hebrews must follow, say that the Hebrews must not have other gods before the Lord, the one true god.

3. Abraham is known as the father of judaism, this religión began when Abraham had a revelation from god which said that there was just one true god, and that Abraham and his wife must move from Uro f the Chaldees to Canaan, with the promise that they were chosen to be the parents of a big nation, the nation of god. Abraham did it and he was father to Isaac, who was the father to Jacob. The god blessed Jacob and then he was known as Israel, he had 12 sons, and they are the fathers of the 12 tribes of Israel. Soon, the descendants of Abraham were hundreds and hundreds.

Moses was born many years after this, when the descendents of Israel were living in Egypt as slaves. He was born hebrew but rised as an egypcian because the egypcian princess adopt him when she found him in the Waters of the Niles. He was abandoned by his mother because egypcian soldiers were ordered to kill every hebrew male newborn. God choose Moses and he left his life as egypcian and free the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt.

4. When King Salomon died, his son Rehoboam divided the Kingdom in 2 parts: North and South. This was because the common people was against the high taxes in the kingdom. They were lead by Jeroboam and took the North part that was named Israel, while Rehoboam ruled in the South part that was named Judah. This political situation was a weakness that originated the taking of Jerusalem by Nabuchadnezzer. The Hebrews were exile in Babylon and this was known as the Babylon captivity.  

religion played a major role in the american revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the british--an assurance to the average american that revolution was justified in the sight of god. the revolution strengthened millennialist strains in american.