Hanging Gardens of Babylon

The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were believed to have been built by...

• Sennacherib

• Nebuchadnezzar II

• Hammurabi

• Sargon the Great

Nebuchadnezzar II was said to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as a gift to his wife Amytis.

• True

• False

What kind of sources DO historians HAVE that suggest the Hanging Gardens of Babylon existed?

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Both Primary and Secondary Sources

The Greek and Roman accounts of Hanging Gardens were written hundreds of years after the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were destroyed. This means...

• The story of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is a LIE

• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon REALLY existed

• The Greeks/Romans who wrote about the Hanging Gardens of Babylon NEVER actually SAW IT.

• We will never know the answer...

What kind of sources do historians NOT HAVE for the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

• Primary Sources

• Secondary Sources

• Both Primary and Secondary Sources

Why does Dr. Stephanie Dalley say that NO EVIDENCE has ever been found of the Hanging Gardens in Babylon?

• the Hanging Gardens were not built in Babylon

• all the evidence has been destroyed

• she doesn't tell us

• archaeologists are still excavating sits in Babylon

Where does Dr. Stephanie Dalley believe the Hanging Gardens were built? By who?

• Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar II

• Nineveh, Nebuchadnezzar II

• Babylon, Hammurabi

• Nineveh, Sennacherib

What does Dr. Dalley suggest may have confused previous historians on the location of the Hanging Gardens? [Choose 2 that Apply]

• Nineveh was also called "New Babylon"

• Nineveh was 300 miles away from Babylon

• The gates in Nineveh have the same exact names as the gates in Babylon.

• Nineveh and Babylon are the same place

What evidence does Dr. Stephanie Dalley use to support the idea that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built in Nineveh? [Choose 2 that Apply]

• “Sennacherib king of the world...Over a great distance I had a [canal] directed to the [neighborhoods] of Nineveh.”

• Nineveh was referred to as the “New Babylon,” and Sennacherib renamed the city gates after those of Babylon’s [gates].

• The lack of any ruins has caused skeptics to question whether the supposed desert wonder was just an “historical mirage.”

While not directly stated, the article "Hanging Gardens Existed, But Not in Babylon" suggests which empire actually built the Hanging Gardens?

• The Akkadians

• The Babylonians

• The Assyrians

• The Neo-Babylonians