Exhibits

ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA

• Sumerian Empire: ca. 3300 – 2000 B.C.
• Akkadian Empire: ca. 2350 – 2150 B.C.
• Babylonian Empire: ca. 1800 – 1500 B.C.
• Assyrian Empire: ca. 1115 – 612 B.C.
• Neo-Babylonian (Chaldean) Empire: ca. 616 – 529 B.C.

FAITH & CHURCH

• Beginning of Christianity
• St. Thomas the Apostle
• Mar Addai and Mar Mari
• Church of the East and Chaldean Monasteries
• Separation from Rome: Nestorian Teaching
• Reunification with Rome: Pope Julius III and Mar Sulaka, 16^th century
• Faith and the Aramaic Language
• Chaldean Rite of the Catholic Church

VILLAGE LIFE

• Villages in the Nineveh Plain
• Agrarian Economy
• Self-Sufficient Communities
• Family and Domestic Life
• Chaldean Catholic Faith
• Education and Opportunity
• Why Some Left the Villages

 JOURNEY TO AMERICA

• Chaldean Immigration Periods: 1880s – 1939 (The Pioneers), 1939 – 1945 (WW II), 1945 – 1965 (Post-War America), 1965 – 2003 (End of Quotas), 2003 to Today (Includes Refugees)

• Why Detroit
• Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Grocery Stores
• Building and Expanding Their Businesses
• Education and Professional Lives

CHALDEANS TODAY

• Images of Chaldean Pioneers (the Past)
• Images of Chaldean Children (the Future)
• Photo Display of Chaldeans in America – Through the Decades
• Chaldean Diaspora
• Chaldean/Christian Refugees