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2000 BCE
Judaism is founded
A man named abraham makes a covenant with Yahweh and has found Judaism -
2000 BCE
Famine of Israel
Abraham's grandson have 12 sons who will lead the tribes of Israel and eventually the jews went to egypt to escape famine -
1200 BCE
Exodus
in 1200 BC a Prophet named Moses starts an exodus to free the jews from captivity and he eventually creates the 10 commandments -
1200 BCE
War with the Philistines
For the next 200 years the Jews fought Philistines and Canaanites for control of the land -
1020 BCE
Kingdom of Israel
They united into one kingdom under king Saul and was succeded by David who made the kingdom great and built a city called Jerusalem -
332 BCE
Israel is Split
Israel is split into two kingdoms conquered by the Assyrians and Babylonians and eventually by alexander the Great -
63 BCE
The Jews Rebel
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