What does a hanging garden mean?

Answer 1

Nebuchadrezzar built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon for his wife Amyitis, A Median princess _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Except of course the internet through search engines [Google, Yahoo, msn etc..] the wikipedia has quite an extensive article in the links below

Answer 2

The Hanging Gardens was probably a hydroponic garden. If hydroponics is a "new" technology, it is a new technology in general use for thousands of years. Accounts indicate that the garden was built by King Nebuchadnezzar, who ruled the city for 43 years starting in 605 BC (There is an alternative story that the gardens were built by the Assyrian Queen Semiramis during her five year reign starting in 810 BC). This was the height of the city's power and influence and King Nebuchadnezzar is known to have constructed an astonishing array of temples, streets, palaces and walls.

According to accounts, the gardens were built to cheer up Nebuchadnezzar's homesick wife, Amyitis. Amyitis, daughter of the king of the Medes, was married to Nebuchadnezzar to create an alliance between the two nations. The land she came from, though, was green, rugged and mountainous, and she found the flat, sun-baked terrain of Mesopotamia depressing. The king decided to relieve her depression by recreating her homeland through the building of an artificial mountain with rooftop gardens.