The term hydroponics is derived from Greek, which literally means "working water". In today's world, hydroponics is often used to describe the methods of plant growing without the used of soil. Since the beginning of civilization, ancient people such as the Aztecs, Babylonians and other people from that era have made use of a form of hydroponics, this in the sense that the methods that they used as simple as they were did not use soil. The mineral solutions that these ancient people had used although not the same as it is today made it viable for them to be able to cultivate the growing of plants without soil, and their form of hydroponics became part of their way of life and is still remembered today.