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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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Elsewhere in Middle East at the time

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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 credits6 pictures from Wikimedia Commons
  • Hanging Gardens of Babylonhttp://www.plinia.net/wonders/gardens/hgpix1.html · Public domain
  • PasargadaeBernd81 · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • MeroëWufei07 · Public domain
  • PersepolisLaurens R. Krol · CC BY 4.0
  • HadhramautJialiang Gao www.peace-on-earth.org [ dead link ] · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Royal RoadOriginal creator: Mossmaps Corrections according to Oxford Atlas of World History 2002, T… · CC BY-SA 4.0