Relier Pairs Mesopotamia VocabularyVersion en ligne vocab par Austin Blodgett 1 2 polytheistic 3 city-states 4 5 6 tribute 7 8 9 sargon 10 empire 11 province 12 surplus Wedge – shaped characters. ancient mesopotamian ruler Wedge – shaped characters. Trained to write cuneiform metireals carried by running water Division of certain countries or empires an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq. an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert. a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state. An amunt of something left over Belife in more then one god ancient mesopotamian ruler Fine sand clay or other in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel Payment to a ruler as a sigh of submission or for protection an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.