ChaldeansYHS

**Major Accomplishments of the Chaldeans:**
After the Assyrians fell, the Chaldean empires dominated the entire fertile crescent

Chaldeans were sometimes called the new Babylonians, descended from the people of Hammurabis Babylonian empire of the 1700s bc

King Nebychadnezzar was the Chaldeans most powerful and prominant ruler and they reached the height of the Chaldeans power during his reign from 605 bc to 562 bc.

Nebychadnezzar extended the boundaries as far west as Syria and Canaan as he conquered the city of Jerusalem and the phoenician city-state of Tyre. The New Babylonians forced the people of Judah into a Babylonian exile in 586 BC.

**Chaldeans unique side:**
Nebychadnezzar also turned Babylonian into the most beautiful city of the ancient world.

Its hanging gardens were part of the seven wonders of the world at the time.

Nebychadnezzar had created these hanging gardens for his wife.

The park(garden) was fed by water from a near by river.

Another amazing landmark was the immense wall that stood fifty feet tall around the city to look out over 100 yards on people coming near.

The Babylonians interests in astrology and recordings of moon phases and the stars helped lay down the foundation for astrologers of a later time.

**Historical Events & People That Defined This Civilization:**
King Nebychadnezzar is possibly the most memorable ruler of the Babylonians. He accomplished the most of their time and made the city famous with artworks and the conquering of the old Babylon and the Fertile Crescent.

**Historical connections between your civilizations and other civilizations:**
After Nebychadnezzars death weak kings ruled and poor crops grew, eventually the Persians under the rule of Cryus came to the mountains of the northeast, and conquered the Chaldean empire.