World history

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.