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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Hanging Gardens of Babylon . By: Itzel Lazcano. Background. It is the second oldest wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is sometimes called The Hanging Gardens of Semiramis referring to the legendary Queen Semiramis .

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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  1. Hanging Gardens of Babylon By: Itzel Lazcano

  2. Background • It is the second oldest wonder of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. • It is sometimes called The Hanging Gardens of Semiramisreferring to the legendary Queen Semiramis. • The name comes from an approximate translation of the Greek word kremastos, or the Latin word pensilis, which means not just "hanging", but "overhanging" like a terrace or balcony. • It was located in the ancient city-state Babylon, which is near modern Iraq. • It collapsed with a variety of earthquakes that happened after the 1st century B.C.

  3. Purpose Nebuchadnezzar II built the gardens to please his homesick wife, Amytis of Media who missed the trees and fragrant plants of Persia. The land she came from was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing.

  4. Chief Architect • Nebuchadnezzar II ordered is workers to build the garden on 600 B.C. • He was a successful warrior king. • The math that was used was basically like measuring and making sure that all the arches were stable.

  5. To build the gardens the first thing that they did was to make a series of brick arches to hold them. They were ten stories high, and had a shaded courtyard underneath. On top of them, the workmen built brick terraces. They lined the terraces with lead and put a thick layer of soil on top. On the platform Nebuchadnezzar ordered his men to plant every kind of tree and plant, importing them from all over the kingdom.

  6. Babylonian engineers designed an advanced system of shafts to carry buckets of water continuously. The water carried in the buckets filled the fountains and pools in the Garden. The energy to allow this was supplied by slaves turning massive screws. This well system was the first and only of its kind in Babylon. They also used massive slabs of stone, which was unheard of in Babylon, to prevent the water from eroding the ground.

  7. Remains • What remains today is just like bricks and rocks.

  8. Was it ahead of its time? The well system that it had you were only able to find it there so like it was advanced because no one else knew like how to get water moving like that at the time so it was ahead of its time.

  9. Was this architecture a great architecture or was it overrated? I think it was a great structure because like no one else had an advanced water system like it or had many different plants and trees.

  10. Extra Credit Another architectural wonder from Babylon is the two walls of Babylon that were used as fortifications to the city.

  11. Sources • http://listverse.com/2007/08/01/the-7-wonders-of-the-ancient-world/ • http://www.unmuseum.org/hangg.htm • http://library.thinkquest.org/5983/pages/gardens.htm • http://www.kidsgen.com/wonders_of_the_world/hanging_gardens.htm

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