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Landmark Middle East wonder

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

600 BCE – 320 BCE · 280 years

Legendary gardens with disputed location and existence. The Babylon marker and displayed dates represent tradition, not confirmed archaeological evidence.

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Hanging Gardens of Babylon on Wikipedia.

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–700 BCE)
  2. Achaemenid Empire (500 BCE–400 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Empire of Alexander (323 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Seleucid Kingdom (300 BCE–200 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Parthia (100 BCE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Parthian Empire (1 BCE–200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Sasanian Empire (300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Persia (400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  9. Sasanian Empire (500 CE–600 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  10. Umayyad Caliphate (700 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  11. Abbasid Caliphate (800 CE–900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  12. Buwayhid Emirates (1000 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  13. Seljuk Empire (1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  14. Khwarazmian Empire (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  15. Ilkhanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  16. Timurid Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  17. Emirate of the White Sheep Turks (1492 CE–1500 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  18. Ottoman Empire (1530 CE–1914 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  19. Mesopotamia (GB) (1920 CE) Border precision: Defined
  20. Kingdom of Iraq (1930 CE) Border precision: Defined
  21. Mesopotamia (GB) (1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  22. Iraq (1945 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
Border precision
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Landmark · Middle East

Pasargadae

546 BCE – 330 BCE

Polity · Middle East

Meroe

Attested 500 BCE – 400 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Mesopotamian Trade Network

3000 BCE – 500 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Conquests of Cyrus the Great

559 BCE – 530 BCE

Landmark · Middle East

Persepolis

515 BCE – still standing

Polity · Middle East

Hadramaut

Attested 323 BCE – 1700 CE

Trade route · Middle East

Persian Royal Road

500 BCE – 330 BCE

Conflict · Middle East

Neo-Babylonian Conquests

612 BCE – 562 BCE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 600 BCE and 320 BCE.

559 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great 546 BCE Pasargadae 525 BCE Persian Conquest of Egypt 520 BCE Behistun Inscription 515 BCE Persepolis

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Landmark · Europe 550 BCE – 262 CE Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Lapita Expansion (Western Polynesia) Trade route · Oceania 1500 BCE – 500 BCE Greco-Persian Wars Conflict · Europe 499 BCE – 449 BCE Buddha Figure · Northern India / Nepal 563 BCE – 483 BCE Statue of Zeus at Olympia Landmark · Europe 435 BCE – 426 CE
Image credits 6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylon http://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hgpix1.html · Public domain
  • Pasargadae Bernd81 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Meroë Wufei07 · Public domain
  • Persepolis Laurens R. Krol · CC BY 4.0
  • Hadhramaut Jialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org [ dead link ] · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Royal Road Original creator: Mossmaps Corrections according to Oxford Atlas of World History 2002, T… · CC BY-SA 4.0