CIVILIZATION
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Herodotus and Thucydides are known for what type of writing?
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poetry
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history
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drama
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philosophy
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -BRIA 24 3 a Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History. Herodotus wrote about the wars between Persia and Greece. Thucydides wrote about the civil war between Athens and Sparta. Together these ancient Greek writers became the first true historians in Western civilization.
Detailed explanation-2: -Herodotus, (born 484 bce?, Halicarnassus, Asia Minor [now Bodrum, Turkey]?-died c. 430–420), Greek author of the first great narrative history produced in the ancient world, the History of the Greco-Persian Wars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Thucydides, the ancient Greek historian of the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens, has long been considered the father of both scientific history and political realism.
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