The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

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1. What is the main idea of this text?
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are a mysterious set of gardens that are one of the
Seven Wonders of the World.
Many authors have written about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon may have been built by King Nebuchadrezzar II.
The Seven Wonders of the World are often disputed.

2. Why do some historians believe that the gardens may have never existed?
It is impossible to hang gardens.
There is no proof that the gardens existed.
Babylon was never a real place.
A stone slate found in ancient ruins said they were not real.

3. Why do some believe that King Nebuchadrezzar II build the gardens for his wife?
She was a gardener.
She wanted him to build something large.
She missed the mountains of her home.
She had hanging gardens in her homeland.

4. Who ruled Babylonia from 810 to 783 B.C.?

King Nebuchadrezzar II
Queen Amytis
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Sammu-ramat

5. What do some stone slates from the reign of King Nebuchadrezzar II describe?
Answers will vary. Accept responses such as they describe Babylonia and its palace.

6. What do you believe to be true about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Use evidence from the
text to support your thinking.
Answers will vary. Accept responses such as I think the gardens existed because there are
many authors who described similar structures. They would have been built so long ago
that archaeological evidence would be too hard to find.

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