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PERSIAN

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How do we know about the Persian wars?
A
Scribes wrote down the history on tablets
B
Artifacts were found at the battles
C
Herodotus wrote down the history
D
Spartan scribes kept records
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -So far as we know, he also wrote only one work, The Histories, a lengthy investigation of the Persian Wars (490-479 BCE), the epic struggle between the much smaller Greek city-states of the West and their foe to the East, the enormous Persian Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -Herodotus was the main historian who wrote the history of the Persian Wars in his The History. The History is broken into nine books. The first four books cover the culture, history, and social structure of the Persian Empire, and the last five books cover the events of the war.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

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