AME People

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Across
  1. 3. the Persian who extended the empire into Egypt
  2. 4. a provincial governor of the Persian empire
  3. 8. the location of the great Neo-Sumerian temple
  4. 9. the Neo-Babylonian king who captured the Jews and sent them as slaves to Babylon
  5. 11. _____ Road, the Persian road that was over 1,600 miles long
  6. 13. the location of the audience hall of Darius
  7. 15. the type of writing invented by the Sumerians
  8. 17. the Persian who built the palace at Persepolis
  9. 19. the Sumerian subject of a great epic
  10. 20. the favorite temple structure of the AME
  11. 22. the people who became the Neo-Babylonians
  12. 24. one of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia
Down
  1. 1. the Sumerian goddess of love and war
  2. 2. the Assyrian ruler whose palace had relief sculptures covering the walls
  3. 5. the first great Persian emperor
  4. 6. the "land between two rivers"
  5. 7. the Akkadian ruler whose Victory Stele showed him as a god
  6. 10. one of the two rivers surrounding Mesopotamia
  7. 12. the guardian beasts of the Assyrians
  8. 14. the Babylonian king who established a set of laws
  9. 16. the location of the oldest Sumerian temple we studied
  10. 18. the first Akkadian king
  11. 21. the Neo-Sumerian king who received instructions from gods to build a temple in his dreams
  12. 23. the animal at the Hittite gate
  13. 25. the Neo-Babylonian goddess of love and war