Mesopotamia Review

3. world's first writing system that use clay tablets and a reed stylus
4. the practice of designing and constructing buildings
6. territories and groups of people under a single rule
8. pyramid-shaped temple tower
9. more than what is needed, surplus
10. a group of soldiers who ride horses
13. an arrangement in which workers specialize in a particular task
14. division of society by rank or class
16. an area referring to a town or city
18. a mixture of rocks and soil
20. a writer
21. worship of many gods
23. a set of letters than can be combined to form words, the Phoenicians created the first one!
24. long poems that tell stories of heroes, such as Gilgamesh

1. Persian leader who conquered a large amount of territory to form the world's largest empire at that time
2. the method of supplying water to an area of land or crops
3. waterways made by humans
5. a political unit with a city and the surrounding area
7. a large region of farmland near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and between the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean Sea
11. King of Uruk and the main character and hero from the Epic of Gilgamesh
12. an area of countryside, rather than a town or city
15. the society, culture, and way of life in a particular region
17. wheeled, horse-drawn cart used in battle
19. a Babylonian King responsible for the Code of Hammurabi, a famous law code
22. Akkadian leader who established the world's first empire