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Rare card · History
Chaldea, a Rare card
Chaldea refers to a region probably located in the marshy land of southern Mesopotamia.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 144
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 210,000
Power 144 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Chaldea quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chaldea card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Hebrew Bible uses the term כשדים, and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the ______ Greek Old Testament.
Answer
Christian. The Hebrew Bible uses the term כשדים, and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the Christian Greek Old Testament. From the Chaldea article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Madame du Barry. Madame du Barry 390,000 · Austro-Prussian War 310,000 · Chaldea 210,000 · N. T. Wright 150,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It is mentioned, with varying meaning, in Neo-Assyrian cuneiform, the Hebrew Bible, and in classical Greek texts.
- The Hebrew Bible uses the term כשדים, and this is translated as Chaldaeans in the Christian Greek Old Testament.
- During a period of weakness in the East Semitic-speaking kingdom of Babylonia, new tribes of West Semitic-speaking migrants arrived in the region from the Levant between the 11th and 9th centuries BC.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chaldea article was read about 210,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Chaldea
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chaldea (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Near_East_topographic_map-blank.svg : Sémhur derivative work: Zunkir ( talk ), CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
