Mesopotamia.
The Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
1. According to the Bible, Noah survived the great flood, and we find Noah's great-grandson, Nimrod, building the Tower of Babel.
a. "The first mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations.[3]He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "mighty in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord". This is repeated in the First Book of Chronicles 1:10, and the "Land of Nimrod" used as a synonym for Assyria or Mesopotamia, is mentioned in the Book of Micah5:6" Nimrod - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
b. "The Generations of Noah or Table of Nations(Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible) is a traditional ethnology representing the expansion of humankind from the descendants of Noah and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood.[1]The 70 names in the list express symbolically the unity of the human race, corresponding to the 70 descendants of Israel who go down into Egypt with Jacob at Genesis 46:27, and the 70 elders of Israel who visit God with Moses at the covenant ceremony in Exodus 24:1-9.[2]
As Christianity took over the Roman world, it adopted the idea that all the world's peoples were descended from Noah."
Generations of Noah - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
2. Nimrod's was the first kingdom in Mesopotamia, and included the metropolis of Ur, a city of the Chaldeans.
According to the historian Josephus, the Chaldeans were originally called the Arphaxadites, having descended from Shem's son Arphaxad..."This is the accountof Shem’s family line.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad." Genesis 11:10. And Abram, later Abraham, father of three great religions, lived in Ur and was a descendent of Arphaxad.
3. The Chaldeans were quite an advanced civilization. "They have a 5,500-year history dating back to Mesopotamia—the cradle of civilization—which is present day Iraq. According to the Old Testament (Gen. 11:31), Abraham was from the city of Ur—which is identified as “Ur of the Chaldeans,” the city of his ancestors....the first civilization to:
· Invent the wheel
· Discover how to make glass
· Discover astronomy
· Use a writing system (cuneiform)
· Invent the yearly calendar, composed of 360 days and 12 months (and the 60-second minute and 60-minute hour)
· Use weights and measures, which were standardized in Babylon around 2,500 B.C.
· Hammurabi’s Code, which was a revolutionary step in the development of fairness and equality under the law.
· In 600 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar built the “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” (one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) to console his queen who missed the mountains and greenery of her native Media."
A Rich History Chaldean Community Foundation
The Fertile Crescent, between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers.
1. According to the Bible, Noah survived the great flood, and we find Noah's great-grandson, Nimrod, building the Tower of Babel.
a. "The first mention of Nimrod is in the Table of Nations.[3]He is described as the son of Cush, grandson of Ham, and great-grandson of Noah; and as "mighty in the earth" and "a mighty hunter before the Lord". This is repeated in the First Book of Chronicles 1:10, and the "Land of Nimrod" used as a synonym for Assyria or Mesopotamia, is mentioned in the Book of Micah5:6" Nimrod - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
b. "The Generations of Noah or Table of Nations(Genesis 10 of the Hebrew Bible) is a traditional ethnology representing the expansion of humankind from the descendants of Noah and their dispersion into many lands after the Flood.[1]The 70 names in the list express symbolically the unity of the human race, corresponding to the 70 descendants of Israel who go down into Egypt with Jacob at Genesis 46:27, and the 70 elders of Israel who visit God with Moses at the covenant ceremony in Exodus 24:1-9.[2]
As Christianity took over the Roman world, it adopted the idea that all the world's peoples were descended from Noah."
Generations of Noah - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
2. Nimrod's was the first kingdom in Mesopotamia, and included the metropolis of Ur, a city of the Chaldeans.
According to the historian Josephus, the Chaldeans were originally called the Arphaxadites, having descended from Shem's son Arphaxad..."This is the accountof Shem’s family line.
Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad." Genesis 11:10. And Abram, later Abraham, father of three great religions, lived in Ur and was a descendent of Arphaxad.
3. The Chaldeans were quite an advanced civilization. "They have a 5,500-year history dating back to Mesopotamia—the cradle of civilization—which is present day Iraq. According to the Old Testament (Gen. 11:31), Abraham was from the city of Ur—which is identified as “Ur of the Chaldeans,” the city of his ancestors....the first civilization to:
· Invent the wheel
· Discover how to make glass
· Discover astronomy
· Use a writing system (cuneiform)
· Invent the yearly calendar, composed of 360 days and 12 months (and the 60-second minute and 60-minute hour)
· Use weights and measures, which were standardized in Babylon around 2,500 B.C.
· Hammurabi’s Code, which was a revolutionary step in the development of fairness and equality under the law.
· In 600 B.C., Nebuchadnezzar built the “Hanging Gardens of Babylon” (one of the original Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) to console his queen who missed the mountains and greenery of her native Media."
A Rich History Chaldean Community Foundation
