What contributions did the Chaldeans make to civilization?

Answer 1

The Chaldeans contribution is The Hanging Garden of Babylonian and they invented the Zodiac Sign.

The ancients all had their methods of divination but it is thought that the Chaldeans of Babylon with their two systems, i.e. liver divination and star-gazing, laid the true foundation of Ptolemy's horoscope based Astrology. (Lindsay, p.9) The practice of liver divination was motivated by specific questions, whose answer was revealed by the nature of the liver at the moment of sacrifice.

"The Babylonian diviner somehow felt that the blow of the sacrificial knife linked the victim with the whole universe in a sort of lightening stroke." (Lindsay, p.26)

This sense of the importance of the moment is carried over into astrology where the moment of birth has ultimate significance. Ptolemy, besides devoting a section of his introduction to the justification of this notion of a starting point, katarche, also stressed the importance of the exact moment of birth, necessary to "the fraction of the hour of the birth." (Ptolemy, p.228) So the significance of the sacrificial moment becomes linked to the moment of birth.

While Chaldean liver divination had a personal characteristic that was determined by the individual destiny of those performing the sacrifice or posing the questions, their second system of divination, through the stars, had a more general nature. It dealt with the heavenly bodies in relation to the national destiny; this concerned itself primarily with the undertakings of the ruler. The phenomena of primary interest were those most readily observable, i.e. eclipses, the relation of the sun and moon, and the appearance of the sky in general. Because the eclipse was the most dramatic of the celestial phenomena it came to have special significance. Its appearance portended danger. (Lindsay, Page 3)

Answer 2

The Chaldeans were known for astrology/astronomy. Each day of the week, they worshipped a different heavenly body that could be seen in the sky with the naked eye. These celestial objects were the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn. Here is a list explaining which bodies were worshipped each day by them:

Sunday - Sun

Monday - Moon

Tuesday - Mars

Wednesday - Mercury

Thursday - Jupiter

Friday - Venus

Saturday - Saturn

The Chaldeans were also known for their illustrious and all mighty ruler, Nebuchezzar. His contribution to Babylon was beautifying it and having the Hanging Gardens of Babylon created, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. He even had a decorative wall built around the city, displaying beautiful tiles.

The Chaldeans were also the inventors of Mathematics as well as the wheel.

Answer 3

The Chaldeans were an Arabian tribe that migrated from the Arabian peninsula to settle in central Mesopotamia in the ninth century BCE, and eventually seized control of the Babylonian kingdom. By the 6th century BCE, the Babylonians were known across the region as "Chaldeans". Their legacy is more indirect than that of, say, the Greeks or Romans.

The Babylonians had already established an empire, which the Chaldeans extended. When the Chaldeans were conquered by the Persians, they in turn inherited that empire. Without the benefit of a ready-made empire to hold and expand, the vast Persian empire may never have come to pass. The Babylonian Empire, under the Chaldeans and their predecessors, was an important stage in the eventual integration of the Middle East under the Persians, then Alexander and his successors.

The Chaldeans conquered Judah and took the Jews into exile. This was, of course, harsh on the Jews of the time, but it resulted in many changes to Jewish theology and practices, and made the Jewish religion more outward-looking.

Answer 4

The chaldeans were very advanced .They Developed astronomy by studying Stars , moons, sun and planets.The calculated the movements of heavenly bodies..They name dthe days of week.They also developed astrology.