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Few people realize that zoos and decorative gardens have an astonishingly long history. Around the year 5000 B.C.E. in the Middle East, writing was invented and the first cities were established. Within 700 years of those events, Egyptian pharaohs had built their famous pyramids, Mesopotamian kings had created the world’s first empires, and rulers in both lands had assembled zoos and botanical gardens. 5 Over the next two millennia, the zoos grew to include such animals as giraffes, cheetahs, and monkeys from Africa, wolves and foxes from Europe, and bears and elephants from Asia. The gardens often incorporated groves of rare trees, of exotic birds, and a central pool stocked with unusual fish. 10 B.C.E. .The richest evidence from Mesopotamia comes from Assyrian palace relics from about 880 to 627 B.C.E. .Throughout the entire period in both areas, ample written records - on clay tablets, papyrus scrolls, and tomb and palace walls - describe how kings and sometimes other power brokers made zoos and gardens for pleasure, prestige, and to satisfy scientific curiosity. Rulers recorded that they gathered many of their animals and seeds from distant lands, frequently 15 setting out on expeditions specifically for that purpose, or receiving them from other kings as gifts. Proud of their collections, they took pains to ensure that their collections would thrive and reproduce. Indeed, they often employed animal handlers and gardeners to care for delicate creatures and plants, and installed innovative watering devices. The most abundant evidence from Egypt derives from burial sites from about 2500 to 1400

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8. The sources mentioned in the second paragraph for the collections of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian rulers include - (1) three continents (2) ancient civilizations of Europe (3) the peoples of conquered lands (4) written records

The best title for the passage above is -

(1) The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt (2) The Earliest Zoos and Gardens (3) Exotic Animals of the Middle East (4) Animal and Plant Collections of Mesopotamia

7. We can infer from the information in the passage that zoos and gardens in the Middle East date back as far as -

(1) 5000 B.C.E. (2) 5700 B.C.E. (3) 4300 B.C.E. (4) 2500 B.C.E.

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