Section: Human Geography

30) For most of the past 2,000 years, most Jews have been:

1. concentrated in the United States
2. dispersed around the world
3. forced to live in ghettos
4. highly clustered in present-day Israel

The diaspora refers to the dispersion of Israelites, Judahites, and later Jews out of what is considered their ancestral homeland (the Land of Israel) and the communities built by them across the world.