Chaldean Migration into Babylonia

Name: Chaldean Migration into Babylonia
Start: -1000
End: -850

Type Event Region Mesopotamia Time c. -1000–-850

From roughly the 10th to 9th centuries CE, Aramaic-speaking Chaldean (Kaldu) tribes gradually migrated from the edge of the Arabian Peninsula and the…

Timeline

c. -1000–-950Uruk-Ur corridor · BabyloniaChaldean tribes entered southern Babylonia from the north and desert edges, establishing camps and villages around the marshes, canals, and ruined city-states, forming a nomadic-semi-sedentary society coexisting with the Akkadian urban tradition.
c. -950–-900Cities of southern Babylonia · BabyloniaChaldean chiefs gradually intervened in succession struggles for the thrones of city-states such as Uruk and Isin, maneuvering among Elamite and Assyrian powers, accumulating military and political capital under the shadow of the Assyrian Empire, paving the way for the later rise of Neo-Babylon.

Sources

The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. III Part 2: The Assyrian and Babylonian Empires and Other States of the Near East, from the Eighth to the Sixth Centuries B.C. — John Boardman et al. (1991)
A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC — Marc Van De Mieroop (2016)