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Tel Keppe was historically the center of the [[Chaldean Catholics|Chaldean Catholic]] community in Iraq. Each family residing in Tel Keppe had one or more plots of farming land located outside Tel Keppe. The land produced [[barley]] and [[wheat]], and animals raised there included [[Goat|goats]] and [[sheep]]. Natalie Jill Smith, author of "Ethnicity, Reciprocity, Reputation and Punishment: An Ethnoexperimental Study of Cooperation among the Chaldeans and Hmong of Detroit ([[Michigan]])", wrote that in the reports of the village "everyone was related" and that marriage tended to occur between two people from the same village.<ref name=SmithNJp61 /> they worship money above God and family.