We should get started off by saying that the reason we are studying a little bit about Judaism here, even though it's a very small religion in terms of numbers, is because it's very influential, not only in terms of kind of western civilization and their outlook on God and such, but really it is going to be the roots of not only Christianity, but also Islam. So the two biggest religions on Earth have their roots in the history that we're going to go over in a moment. Now even though we're going to be talking about Canaan or Israel, sometimes called Palestine or ancient Palestine, and again this is eastern Mediterranean, holy crossroads Batman. I mean if you go to the west you're in Egypt and if you go into the east you're like in Mesopotamia and Babylonian. So this is at the center crux of early civilizations, really a trading crossroads at the end of the day. But we have to start by saying that Judaism or the Hebrew people does not originate in Canaan, it actually originates in the city of Ur in ancient Mesopotamia. If you want to watch a video on Mesopotamia you can click in the description below and learn all about Mesopotamia.