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A short, 3 page discussion of the Hanging Gardens of Bablyon, their story & features. Focus is upon what makes them one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of the most technical examples available of how these wonders utilized practices that would later become inherent parts of society.. The term ``hydroponics was coined in the early 1930s by
William F. Gericke, of the University of California, Berkeley, who derived it from the Greek hydro (``water) and ponos (``labor) to mean ``water working. Although the term, in the strict
sense, refers to water culture, modern hydroponics more often uses a variety of inert materials, like gravel or perlite, as a porous root support, in place of water and a
mechanical support such as wire mesh. But the soilless culture of plants actually dates back more than 2,000 years to one of the Seven Ancient Wonders : the Hanging Gardens
of Babylon. It is important to understand first that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were created during an era of great sociopolitical -2- change. The Chaldeans
became heir to Assyrian power in 612 B.C., and they conquered formerly Assyrian-held lands in Syria and Palestine. King Nebuchadnezzar (605-562 B.C.) conquered the kingdom of Judah, and he destroyed
Jerusalem in 586 B.C. Conscious of their ancient past, the Chaldeans sought to reestablish Babylon as the most magnificent city of the Middle East. It was during the Chaldean period
that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were actually created. They became symbolic of a new era and of a new, more-aesthetically conscious society. The infamous
hanging gardens were cleverly engineered to overlook the roofs of the palace and the city. Politically, they had been created to fulfill the wish of the queen, a Persian
princess homesick for the paradise gardens of her own lush country. There, a "paradise" had originally been an enclosed space where various plants, some of them flowers, were grown to
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