When the leaders of the southern kingdom of Israel came back from exile in Babylon in the 530s B.C.E., the name of their larger tribe became the name of the political area, and the people who lived there were called:
a. Protestants.
b. Parsis.
c. Judahites.
d. Armenians .
c. Judahites.
Analysis:
a, b & d. Incorrect. The modern nation of Israel, founded in 1948, calls itself by the same name as that of ancient Israel, but the people of modern Israel are called Israelis, not "Israelites."
c. Correct. When the leaders of the southern kingdom of Israel came back from exile in Babylon in the 530s B.C.E., the name of their larger tribe became the name of the political area, and the people who lived there became the Judahites, or “Jews” for short.
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