The Chaldeans

Chaldean warriors

Drawings and Models of Babylon

Cuneiform writing Nebuchadnezzar

Mesopotamia & Middle Orie

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Hegemony.

The causes are multiple heats hegemony:

    * The way in which fully assimilated with other races
    * They adopted the language and culture of those
    * Their culture was amalgamated with that of those
    * They kept at the same time their language
    * They were a sort of aristocracy or race superior to others
    * Initially formed small states, which came to dominate four are:
          or Babylon
          or Erex or Orc
          or Uarkadel XIX century located on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 40 miles south of Babylon
          or Accad, the center of the primitive tribes of this name, also called Nippur, which was in the midst of the Chaldean itself and along the famous Royal Canal and Xalan or Ur Chaldean word meaning "the city par excellence."

Religion.

   Religious principles of the wise Chaldeans who had to inform the beliefs of the culture permeated Assyrian Chaldean astrological foundation of the religion by the following:

    * The wise Chaldean priests said that one day the god came Uanna Erytreo Sea, in the form of man with fish tail and teach them astronomy.
    * According to Diodorus Siculus long no one knows better than the Chaldean the following:
          o The influence of certain phenomena
          o The science of the future
    * The essentials of his doctrine was as follows:
          or movements of the five planets they called interpreters
          o The most important of these five planets was Helios, the Sun
          or wise to observe the output and setting of the stars and their color, by deducting from his observation that:
                  Atmospheric changes
                  Weather changes
                  Blizzards
                  Rainfall
                  Heat
                  The appearance of comets
                  Eclipses:
                      # Sol
                      # Luna
                  Earthquakes, etc.
          or addition to the five planets placed more than 30 stars called "gods advisers" which:
                  Half lived in the land
                  The other half below it, to respond equitably to things celestial and human
          and also after "twelve lords of the gods", each of whom presided over one month and one zodiac sign
          or believed that the moon was closer to the earth by reason of their weight and their revolutions executed in less time than the sun because it described un'círculo smaller
          or in the cities had one or more observatories in the form of tower or pyramid known as "ziggurats."
Chaldean Assyrian culture was the fusion of these 2 cultures similar story.The Chaldean MagiChaldean magicians who practiced the occult had two types of magic that were:

    * White Magic, which was part of worship, for which they communicated with spirits magicians top
    * Black magic, condemned by religion, made by sorcerers who exploited the bad passions.
TalismansThe pious people to guard against the evil influence of spells and evil spirits, talismans used was a band of fabric with written formulas that were set as follows:

    * Clothes
    * Furniture
    * Figurines of gods who had been suspended were:
          or Neck
          or hard stone cylinders

Chaldean Empire

   During the period of Assyrian domination of Babylon, the Chaldeans had a strong resistance to the Assyrian realm. When Babylonia finally reestablished its independence, was under a Chaldean dynasty. After the conquest of Babylon by the Persians, Chaldeans disappear as a separate tribe. The Chaldean Dynasty kings were:

    * Nabopolassar: 626 a. C.-605 a. C.
    * Nebuchadnezzar II: 605 a. C.-562 a. C.
    * Evilmerodac: 562 a. C.-560 a. C.
    * Neriglissar: 560 a. C.-556 a. C.
    * Labashi-Marduk: 556 a. C.
    * Nabonidus: 556 a. C.-539 a. C.

Chaldeans

SourceThe Chaldeans were a Semitic tribe of unknown origin that settled in southern Mesopotamia in the early part of the first millennium before the Common Era. Its language is assumed to relate to the Syrians, but settled farther south than the Syrians, who had settled in upper Mesopotamia and Syria. Notwithstanding the Chaldeans "ordinary" or Turanian plunge were imposed at the other two elements of the population were:

    * Casitas
    * Semites
Chaldean Roman authors called the astrologers and mathematicians of Babylon. In modern times, Catholics are called Chaldeans of Mesopotamia.

The Chaldeans

ECONOMY:The Sumerians and Babylonians lived peacefully engaged in agriculture and then later to trade. 

CULTURE:Disposed of mathematical knowledge, using a sexagesimal computation base for both the numbering system for weights and measures. More developed science was astronomy, which disposed of advanced knowledge, astronomical charts plotted and distinguished the planets from the stars.GOVERNMENT:Long Chaldean society was governed by rules of moral-religious theocracy developed by surrounding the patesi .. However, the true lord of the city was the god, the prince or patesi was only an agent. From society Hammurabi was handled by the code name, the effect of which was maintained for a long time.