Origin of Judaism： Unit 2 Words to be Quizzed on Friday (星期五單詞小考）

Script:

  00:00   it's a narrow strip of territory not

   00:02  more than 80 miles across bounded by the

   00:05  Mediterranean Sea to the west and the

00:07  Jordan River and the Arabian desert to

00:09  the east it sits in the westernmost

00:12  portion of what we now call the Middle

00:14 East a name given because of its

00:17 position in relation to three continents

00:19 Europe Africa and Asia this land has had

00:24 many names Israel

00:26 Canaan the promised land the Holy Land

00:30 Judea and Samaria and Palestine will

00:34 refer to the land as Israel Palestine

00:42 many millennia ago israel-palestine saw

00:46 the dawn of human civilization and since

00:48 then it's played a key role in the story

00:51 of humanity israel-palestine story is an

00:54 ancient one dating back thousands of

00:57 years and involving the most powerful

00:59 world empires the Egyptians Babylonians

01:03 and Romans while the history of the

01:08 Middle East goes back thousands of years

01:10 some people today only refer to recent

01:13 and current issues but to understand the

01:18 entire situation we have to start

01:21 thousands of years ago back then the

01:25 land had a different name Kanaan

01:32 in the ancient world

01:34 Canaan was a point of intersection

01:36 between different peoples and worlds its

01:39 geographical position made it a natural

01:42 corridor between Asia and Africa and

01:44 Canaan was a major transit area in

01:47 junction for trade the terrain and land

01:50 unusually diverse for such a small area

01:53 changed dramatically from west to east

01:55 this division of hills and valleys and

02:00 varied ecosystems made the land

02:03 attractive to neighboring powers from

02:06 the dawn of human history then cannon

02:08 was exposed to and dominated by the

02:11 earliest centers of civilization with

02:13 that a steady stream of settlers into

02:16 the region established an incredibly

02:18 varied ethnic and cultural makeup with

02:20 many different peoples occupying the

02:22 land before the Israelite conquest in

02:24 1300 to 1200 BCE the biblical figure

02:28 Abraham was reputed to be one of those

02:30 settlers in around 1900 BCE

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