Mesopotamia VOCAB

5. the supply of water to land or crops to help growth, typically by means of channels.
6. a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
8. True King in Akkadian.
10. a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation.
13. the second king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire,
14. denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia,
15. the crescent-shaped region in Western Asia

1. a legendary Sumerian king, the hero of Sumerian and Babylonian epics.
2. a person who copies out documents,
3. fine sand, clay, or other material carried by running water and deposited as a sediment
4. a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing,
7. an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority
9. clothes collectively.
11. a river in SW Asia,
12. a long river in western Asia that was one of the two great rivers of the ancient region of Mesopotamia