WORLD CIVILIZATION

CIVILIZATION

ASSYRIAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Nebuchadnezzar built all of the following, EXCEPT:
A
Hanging Gardens
B
Tower of Babel
C
Library of Nineveh
D
Ishtar Gate
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He completed and extended fortifications begun by his father, built a great moat and a new outer defense wall, paved the ceremonial Processional Way with limestone, rebuilt and embellished the principal temples, and cut canals. This he did not only for his own glorification but also in honour of the gods.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Library of Ashurbanipal (7th century BCE) is the oldest known systematically organized library in the world, established in Nineveh by the Neo-Assyrian king Ashurbanipal (r. 668-627 BCE) to preserve the history and culture of Mesopotamia.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Library of Ashurbanipal (also spelled Assurbanipal) is a set of at least 30, 000 cuneiform documents written in the Akkadian and Sumerian languages, which was found in the ruins of the Assyrian city of Nineveh, the ruins of which are called Tell Kouyunjik located in Mosul, present-day Iraq.

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