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Ancient Hydroponics Gardens

The word "hydroponics" is derived from two13th Century CE and introduced pasta to
Greek words: cidra, meaning water, andItaly, commented on what he called the
punikos, meaning labor; thus, literally"Floating Gardens." Around the same time on
"waterworks." Contrary to popular belief,the other side of the world, the Mexica - one
hydroponic gardening is an ancient form ofof the native peoples who later formed the
agriculture, going back 3,000 years. ThereAztec Empire of Mexico - built a city called
are references to the cultivation of plantsTenochtitlan on the shores of Lake Texcoco.
directly in water in Egyptian records datingWhere Mexico City stands today, the Mexica
back to the time of the New Kingdom and theconstructed an extensive urban center that
"Woman-King," Pharoah Hatshepsut around 1460included a type of early hydroponic system
BCE.upon which plants were cultivated on the
surface of the water. These early Mexican
The best-known hydroponic gardens of the"floating gardens" were developed out of
ancient world were the Hanging Gardens ofnecessity, because arable land was at a
Babylon. Also known as the Gardens ofpremium in the area. Called chinampas, they
Semiramis, the Hanging Gardens are reputed towere actually small, artificial islands that
have been located near Al-Hillah inwere created by scooping up mud from the
present-day Iraq, and were regarded as one ofmarshy areas bordering the lakes. This mud
the  Seven  Wonders  of  the  Ancient  World.was ultimately held together by tree roots;
food plants were cultivated on these
The Hanging Gardens were built by King"islands,"  and  were  amazingly  productive.
Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BCE. His wife,
Amytis, was from Media, whose people were theThe modern history of hydroponics actually
ancestors of the modern Kurds. The country ofbegins in 1627, when Sir Francis Bacon's
Medea was a mountainous one, roughlySylva Sylvarum was published posthumously. In
corresponding to present-day Kurdistan,this treatise, Bacon - an English philosopher
northern Iran and Azerbaijan. Legend saysand contemporary of Shakespeare - wrote about
Amytis became homesick for the mountains andthe cultivation of terrestrial plants without
the flora of her homeland; Nebuchadnezzar hadsoil. Although Bacon died before his theories
the Gardens constructed for her. According tocould be explored, the idea of water culture
Greek historians of the time, the Hangingcaught on as an area of scientific study
Gardens, a water pipe led into a well tower,throughout the remainder of the 17th Century.
which supplied water via a number of vaultsBy the 1860s, German botanists Julius von
for fruit trees growing in a layer ofSachs and Wilhelm Knop had perfected the
asphalt.first nutrient solutions for soilless
agriculture, and modern hydroponic gardening
Centuries later, Italian traveler Marco Polo,was born.
who reportedly visited China during the late



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