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