Location: Mesopotamia Plain between Tigris and Euphrates

Terrain: Mainly plains, with deserts, plateaus and mountains around

Climate: The overall climate is warm and humid, with abundant rainfall, and the plains are lush and rich in resources, but the flow of the two rivers is greatly affected by the upstream rainfall and is prone to flooding and disasters

The Sumerians created the first highly civilized and had rich results

Many dynasties changed, and each dynasty made different development achievements. In 539 BC, the Persians occupied the Mesopotamian Basin and established the Persian Empire.

Hunting Garden: It originates from people's attachment to fishing and hunting life, transformed on the basis of natural forests, and is the prototype of modern botanical gardens and zoos.

Shengyuan: Based on the Mesopotamian animism, it believes that plants and animals have independent spirits, so it respects trees. The ancient Babylonians and Assyrians planted trees neatly around the temples and temples to form a holy garden.

Palace Garden: Ancient Babylonian and Assyrian buildings are arranged around the internal courtyard, and the palace has walls and multiple courtyards. The most famous of them is the "Babylonian Sky Garden".

Garden type: includes hunting gardens (transformed from natural forests, used for hunting, artificial plants and animal feeding), holy gardens (influenced by animism, planting trees next to temples, with a solemn atmosphere), palace gardens (using " The Babylonian Sky Garden is represented by the garden attached to the palace).

Architecture and layout: "Air Garden" is built on a city wall with towers, with multi-story steps. It has a stone-built outer corridor with arches and internal facilities, supported by wide and thick high walls, and is irrigated with a spiral water pump. It looks like it is hanging in the air from a distance.

Plant application: The hunting garden has original forest vegetation, artificially introduced trees and flowers, and wild domesticated flowers. "Aerial Garden" plant a variety of tree-irrigated vines.

Religious influence: The construction of holy gardens was influenced by the influence of animism, and religious buildings such as temples and altars were often built on the gardens and earthen mountains.

Climate and living needs: The climate is hot, and people's living, entertainment and aesthetic needs are met by building green corridors, "sky gardens", etc.

Garden type and functional layout: Ancient Babylonian gardens include hunting gardens, holy gardens and palace gardens. The hunting garden is similar to a modern zoo and a botanical garden; the holy garden revolves around religious buildings, providing ideas for modern religious gardens to integrate religion and landscape; the palace garden sky garden functions are integrated, inspiring modern gardens such as urban parks to carry out diversified functional divisions.

Plant configuration and species utilization: Hunting Garden has diverse plants, including native and alien species. This inspires modern gardens to expand the scope of material selection, reasonably introduce plants, and select plants based on functional areas, such as shading trees in the leisure areas and flowers in the ornamental areas.

Architecture and Engineering Technology: The multi-story step layout of the sky garden, arched outer corridor and spiral water pump water lifting technology provides a reference for modern three-dimensional greening (roof garden, vertical greening wall) to solve load-bearing, irrigation and space utilization problems. Its arched elements are also Can be used for garden sketch design to add artistic sense.

Culture and spiritual connotation: Ancient Babylonian gardens are related to religion and myths. The holy garden reflects the respect for gods, and the sky garden has romantic legends. Modern gardens can explore regional culture and historical stories to integrate into the landscape and enhance cultural heritage, such as setting up related sculptures and sketches in urban parks.