Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The second wonder of the world have almost two hundred years younger than the pyramid of Cheops. Antipater’s contemporaries were able to visit to Babylon, which was undoubtedly the first metropolis of mankind, but already in ruin most since centuries III or IV BC Macedonienii Persians and destroyed the city Uruk, a seventh century BC Tower of Babel of the Old Testament had been turned to ashes long before Antipater.

There is’ Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the second wonder of the world. It was seven terraces built of stone slabs each measuring 5.45 meters long and 1.35 meters wide. These tiles were placed on ceiling beams and a cellar. Each terrace is nearly 5 feet above the one below it, which gave the impression of a gigantic staircase. Directly over these slabs there was a layer of reeds glued to ensure tightness, above add two rows of tile burned, stuck with plaster.

For the sealing to be perfect to cast a layer of molten lead. Above all was a layer of arable land, three meters thick, that could take root even large trees were then dimensiuni.Gradinile palace sine.Dar something extraordinary in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were still single architectural plan. And there was the smallest of his merits that have an ingenious irrigation system consisting of deep wells, canals, small lakes and water games that fueled terraces, bringing cool so precious in desert climate, hot and dry, the region. Summer slaves pump water continuously.

Effect was due to a suspension of deferrals artful gardens of seven floors. They formed a homogeneous whole, linked together by weaving ornamental plant of ancient Babylon urcatoare.Gradinile included some botanical wonders. There was an simplagradina palace, but the first collection of plants in the world. Creator King Nebuchadnezzar, pregnant soldiers to release their carefully undertaken during the campaign, all known plants that were located abroad and send them in soon.

Babylon caravans and ships to always plant in November. Descriptions of these gardens are not lacking. It says that the monarch had given his wife the first botanical gardens, a Persian princess, for that, monotonous environment of Mesopotamia, to be able to play during long standing sau.Numele absent husband of Queen is unknown. There will probably never know why they were given the name “Hanging Gardens of Babylon.”

Semiramis, queen of Assyria, is well known to historians, but she lived long before and would rather have had the idea to achieve such a garden.

Great Wall
For centuries, Chinese militarists fortified walls built along China’s vast northern border. But their work was not complete until 214 bC when Emperor Shi-huang you added new walls and ordered that all barriers to be connected into a single large wall. Overwhelming work that followed, killed thousands of peasants forced to help the project. Great Wall when it was finished, is already stretched to more than 4000 km over the remote and mountainous areas, becoming the largest construction project completed in full. Much of the Great Wall still exists today and tourists can still walk-on for hundreds of kilometers. But to protect the empire which was built disbanded soon after die first leader.

Indus Valley
Civilization in India is almost as old as Egypt’s culture. But while the gods of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome have now gone a long time, two great religions were born in India: Hinduism and Buddhism. These religions dominate the modern world and ancient temples are still important places of prayer. Something in language and literature art and civilizations that were preserved for at least 4,500 years.