✰ Origin of the Chaldean Empire ✰

Category #1

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What is 5.2 About

 Origin of the Chaldeans

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Under whose leadership did the Chaldeans conquer all of Mesopotamia? 

ANSWER - King Nabopolassar 

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What did the Chaldeans sometimes call babylonia? 

 ANSWER-  Second or New Babylonian Empire

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What is the Capital of Babylonia

ANSWER- Babylon

Category #2

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Who is King Nabopolasser son?

ANSWER - Nebuchadnezzar

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What religion were the Chaldeans

Eastern Rite Catholic (will take Catholic for an answer)

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How long did the Chaldeans live in Babylonia for?

625- 539 B.C. 

So 86 years 

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How long did King Nabopolassar rule for? (DOUBLE POINTS IF YOU CAN GUESS WHAT YEARS)

ANSWER- 20 years

 DOUBLE POINT ANSWER - (625-605 B.C.)

Category #3

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Where did the Chaldeans come from? 

ANSWER -  south­ern end of Mesopotamia 

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What language did the Chaldeans speak?

Aramaic, not Arabic

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Why did Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and car­ried the inhabitants of Judah away to captivity in Babylon?

 ANSWER- Because The time had come for Judah to suffer judgment for her rebellion against God

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Under whose leadership did the Chal­deans conquered the western part of the fertile crescent, including the Southern Kingdom of Judah?

ANSWER- King Nebuchadnezzer

True or False

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1. Hammurabi’s Babylonian Empire was the First or Old Babylonian Empire

TRUE

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 Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem? 

 TRUE

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Chaldean Empire eventually extended over the entire fertile crescent,and included Egypt as had the Assyrian Empire. 

False - Chaldean Empire eventually extended over the entire fertile crescent,  but it never  included Egypt as had the Assyrian Empire. 

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King Nabopolassar form an alliance with the Medes and the Assyrian empire who had overthrown the Scyth­ians 

 ANSWER- False he formed alliances with the Medes and Scythians