HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Why was Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War an important contribution of ancient Greece?
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It describes the Acropolis’s role in the war as providing a place of defense and shelter.
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This work records the war between Greece and Persia in an attempt to explain the conflict.
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Thucydides recorded both the Greek and Spartan sides of the war to ensure that the history was correct.
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It was the first time that the Greeks had recorded a history of a war, even though other groups had recorded history.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -With his History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides chronicled what was perhaps the most momentous event of the ancient Greek world. He explored the major personalities on each side of the conflict and examined the political origins of the clash between Sparta and an ascendant Athens.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Peloponnesian War was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta-the two most powerful city-states in ancient Greece at the time (431 to 405 B.C.E.). This war shifted power from Athens to Sparta, making Sparta the most powerful city-state in the region.
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