Here are the correct matches:
- 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.