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Sargon
The founder of the Akkadian empire.
Hammurabi
A Babylonian king famous for his law code.
Cuneiform
The writing system of ancient Mesopotamia.
Old, Middle, and New Kingdom
Periods of Egyptian history.
Hieroglyphs
A writing system of ancient Egypt.
Linear B
The writing system of the Mycenaeans.
Darius
A Persian king who began construction of Persepolis.
Xerxes
A Persian king during the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis.
The Phoenicians
Seafaring traders from the vicinity of modern-day Lebanon, noteworthy for their use of an alphabetic script.
Indus civilization
An early civilization in ancient India/Pakistan, known for their carefully planned cities.
The Zhou dynasty
A Chinese dynasty during the time of Confucius and the Warring States Period.
The Shang dynasty
A Chinese dynasty at the time of the earliest known writing from China.
The Mycenaeans
An early Greek civilization.
Nebuchadnezzar II
A king of Babylon who appears in the Bible.
Ziggurat
A Mesopotamian pyramidal structure.
Pericles
A military commander and politician from democratic Athens.
Julius Caesar
A Roman leader assassinated on the Ides of March.
Augustus
The first Roman emperor.
Qin Shi Huangdi
The first Chinese emperor.
Diocletian
A Roman emperor who divided up the empire between four co-emperors ('Caesars' and 'Augustuses').
Constantine
The first Christian Roman emperor.
Julian the Apostate
A Roman emperor who rejected Christianity, despite being raised Christian.
Akkadian civilization
The first empire of ancient Mesopotamia.
Ur
A prominent Sumerian city.
Sardis
A Persian city burned down in the Ionian revolt.
Knossos
A city on Crete; the mythical home of the Minotaur.
Trireme
A type of Greek warship.
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