Hanging+gardens+of+Babylon

=History = This gardens were built by King Nebuchadnezzar who ruled the city for 43 years. The King made this gardens to cheer his homesick wife Amyitis.



= **Characteristics ** = The gardens had exotic plants and animals that were imported from all the world. It was considered to have a ziggurat structure but with flowers. It is one of THE SEVEN WONDERS OF ANCIENT WORLD. It was a garden covering the temple. Nebuchadnezzar ll is also reported to have used massive slabs of stone, a technique not otherwise in Babylon, to prevent the water from eroding the ground.



= **People and places ** = Nebuchadnezzar restored old religious monuments and improved canals, as other Babylonian kings had done. He was the first Babylonian king to rule Egypt, and controlled an empire that extended to Lydia, but his best known accomplishment was his palace, a place used for administrative, religious, ceremonial, as well as residential purposes, and specially the legendary Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world.



=**Renovations and changes** = The land Amyitis came from was beautiful compared to the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia. Amyitis missed the mountains and greenery of her homeland. She was homesick so Nebuchadnezzar decide to do this exotic HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON so the wife wouldn't feel homesick.

=**Floor Plan** = **This is how the Hanging Gardens of Babylon look:**



=**Illustrations** =

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