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The Writing System of the Mycenaeans

Linear B

The Writing system of Ancient Mesopotamia

Cuneiform

The founder of the Akkadian empire

Sargon

The first Roman Emperor

Augustus

The first empire of ancient Mesopotamia

Akkadian civilization

The first Christian Roman emperor

Constantine

The first Chinese emperor

Qin Shi Huangdi

A Chinese dynasty during the time of Confucius and the Warring States Period

The Zhou Dynasty

Seafaring traders from the vicinity of modern-day Lebanon, noteworthy for their use of an alphabetic script

The Phoenicians

Periods of Egyptians history

Old, Middle, and New Kingdom

An early Greek civilization

The Mycenaeans

An early civilization in ancient India/Pakistan, known for their carefully planned cities

Indus civilization

A writing system of Ancient Egypt

Hieroglyphs

A type of Greek warship

Trireme

A city on Crete; the mythical home of the Minotaur

Knossos

A Roman leader assassinated on the Ides of March

Julius Caesar

A Roman emperor who rejected Christianity, despite being raised Christian

Julian the Apostate

A Roman emperor who divided up the empire between four co-emperors (“Caesars” and “Augustuses”)

Diocletian

A prominent Sumerian city

Ur

A Persian king who began the construction of Persepolis

Darius

A Persian king during the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis

Xerxes

A Persian city burned down in the Ionian revolt

Sardis

A military commander and politician from democratic Athens

Pericles

A Mesopotamian pyramidal structure

Ziggurat

A king of Babylon who appears in the Bible

Nebuchadnezzar II

A Chinese dynasty at the time of the earliest known writing from China

The Shang Dynasty

A Babylonian king famous for his law code

Hammurabi