CIVILIZATION
ASSYRIAN
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It was built for the king with his own money.
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It was built for the king’s wife with the king’s money.
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It was built for the king’s wife with the people’s money.
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It was built for the king with the people’s money.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Legend has it that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had the gardens built as a gift to his wife Semiramis, a Persian princess, to ease her homesickness for the green forests of her homeland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II was said to have constructed the luxurious Hanging Gardens in the sixth century B.C. as a gift to his wife, Amytis, who was homesick for the beautiful vegetation and mountains of her native Media (the northwestern part of modern-day Iran).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were the fabled gardens which beautified the capital of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, built by its greatest king Nebuchadnezzar II (r. 605-562 BCE). One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, they are the only wonder whose existence is disputed amongst historians.
Detailed explanation-4: -Nebuchadnezzar was one of the greatest kings of Babylon. It is said that he rebuilt Babylon entirely and provided the world with one of its seven wonders, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Detailed explanation-5: -According to one legend, the Hanging Gardens were built alongside a grand palace known as The Marvel of Mankind, by the Neo-Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II (who ruled between 605 and 562 BC), for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.