Mesopotamian Empires by KC Chick https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99 Please add any cool details you find in your empire research. en-us 2016-11-15 16:57:50 UTC 2016-11-15 18:25:27 UTC hello@padlet.com dg006433 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137823659 The walls around the NeoBabylonian empire where 80 ft thick, 320 ft tall, and 56 miles long!]]> 2016-11-15 17:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137823659 dg006428 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824074 One Mesopatiamian God was Ea, a God of the  water, craft, and cleverness. Here's what I found. "Enki or Ea - god of the Abzu, crafts, water, intelligence, mischief and creation and divine ruler of the Earth and its humans
" This was found on Wikipedia.]]> 2016-11-15 17:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824074 The location of the garden as not been found or the location dg006458 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824092 2016-11-15 17:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824092 Because no physical evidence for the Hanging Gardens has be found at Babylon it has been suggested that they were purely mythical. Research by Wikipedia dg007189 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824239 2016-11-15 17:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824239 Hanging gardens dg006436 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824654 The grand palace became known as the " Marvel of the Mankind]]> 2016-11-15 17:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824654 The Hanging Gardens dg006439 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824779 According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.]]> 2016-11-15 17:29:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824779 dg006598 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824911
Some believe that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were destroyed in an earthquake, although many others believe erosion and conquest were the destruction factors]]> 2016-11-15 17:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137824911 dg006598 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825250 The most popular theory is that the gardens were built by king Nebuchadnezzar II to make his wife happy. ]]> 2016-11-15 17:30:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825250 dg011760 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825615 The neo Babylonians is also known as the Chaldean empire ]]> 2016-11-15 17:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825615 dg006422 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825650 Hammurabis code is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.]]> 2016-11-15 17:31:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825650 dg006433 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825724 If the garden existed, it would need 8,200 gallons of water every day to keep the plants alive]]> 2016-11-15 17:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825724 People say they have found ruins of the hanging gardens of Babylon dg005169 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825838 2016-11-15 17:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137825838 The hanging gardens of Babylon dg006427 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826135 According to one legend, Nebuchadnezzar II built the Hanging Gardens for his Median wife, Queen Amytis, because she missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland. He also built a grand palace that came to be known as "The Marvel of the Mankind"]]> 2016-11-15 17:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826135 The Hanging Gardens of Babylonia were suggested that they were grown to imitate a natural mountain landscape. dg005552 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826346 2016-11-15 17:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826346 According to legend the king built the hanging gardens for his wife because she missed the hills and greenery back where she used to live dg011760 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826391 2016-11-15 17:32:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826391 Hanging gardens dg006436 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826545 The palace was built in the 19th century]]> 2016-11-15 17:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826545 Hanging gardens dg012849 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826660 The seven wonders of the Ancient word]]> 2016-11-15 17:33:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826660 Assyrians dg006398 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826846 The Neo-Assyrians decided to take over Egypt and did it with ease.]]> 2016-11-15 17:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137826846 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 dg006458 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827018 2016-11-15 17:34:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827018 When the Akkadian empire fell, they split into two groups. These two groups were the Babylonian and the Assyrian empires. The Babylonians went south, and the Assyrians went north. https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827029 2016-11-15 17:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827029 A law I found interesting is, if you point a finger at a woman, you're eyebrows will be shaved off dg005169 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827034 2016-11-15 17:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827034 Hanging Gardens dg006439 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827443
The Hanging Gardens are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world that may not even have existed.]]> 2016-11-15 17:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827443 dg006422 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827568 Hammurabis code was discovered by modern archaeologists in 1901, and its editio princeps translation published in 1902 by Jean-Vincent Scheil.]]> 2016-11-15 17:35:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827568 Weird dg006427 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827580 The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, is the only one whose location has not been definitively established.]]> 2016-11-15 17:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827580 Hammurabis stele where he wrote his code of laws, still exists in a museum in France dg005169 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827749 2016-11-15 17:35:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827749 dg006073 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827799 No one knew where the city Akkad was before

]]> 2016-11-15 17:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137827799 dg007755 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137828471 The Assyrians empire lasted 340 years.]]> 2016-11-15 17:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137828471 dg006433 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137828680 The Hanging Gardens are the 2nd oldest wonder of the world]]> 2016-11-15 17:37:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137828680 The Hanging Gardens started with just a hole in the ground. dg005552 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137830004 2016-11-15 17:40:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137830004 In Hammurabis Code issues justice following the three classes of Babylonian society: property owners, freed men, and slaves. For example, if a doctor killed a rich patient, he would have his hands cut off, but if he killed a slave, only financial restitution was required. dg007702 https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137831295 2016-11-15 17:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kchick/cvgy7i5cjx99/wish/137831295