2. H Erin Jones Hanging Gardens

3. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were thought to be built by King Nebuchadnezzar for his wife. Although it may not be real the love story behind it is awe inspiring. Built around 600 B.C. and rumored to be over 400 feet long, 400 feet wide and over 80 feet high Nebuchadnezzar built it for his homesick wife who longed to back in her mountain home. When she first came to the palace the gardens were built to make her feel loved and welcomed. Being as tall as it was it was only fit that the giant Euphrates river water the plants by using canals that ran under the gardens.

4. Hanging Gardens Although the Hanging Gardens may not be real is that it was one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Here is a list of some of the current ones. The Pyramid at Chichén Itzá Christ Redeemer The Roman Colosseum The Taj Mahal The Great Wall of China Petra Machu Picchu

5. R Erin Jones Rights, Hammurabi’s Code

6. As you may already know Hammurabi’s code was the first written set of laws. It was also a very advanced set of laws. Each law had a certain punishment. If you broke a law and were found guilty you were punished. Hammurabi expected that if a law was written down you would obey it. Being one of the best preserved legal documents found it was written on a stone tablet that was over six feet tall and contained two hundred eighty-two laws. This great legal document united all of Mesopotamia.

7. Rights, Hammurabi’s Code Hammurabi’s Code is similar to the laws we have to day. For example we both have the death penalty in our laws. Although our laws today don’t have the death penalty as much as Hammurabi did in his code of laws did. Another way these laws are similar is that they are both written down by or made up by powerful leaders. Although Hammurabi’s Code may not have been written down by Hammurabi himself (he probably had a scribe do it for him) they were created by him, just like our laws are created by our president.

8. Bibliography http://mesopotamia.mrdonn.org/ham murabi.html http://historyforkids.org/learn/westas ia/history/hammurabi.htm http://www.phillipmartin.info/hammu rabi/hoepage.htm