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Fall of the Western Empire — Unit test

Question 8 • IL-MS World History A

Why was Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War an important contribution of ancient Greece?

Answer
A
It describes the Acropolis’s role in the war as providing a place of defense and shelter.
B
This work records the war between Greece and Persia in an attempt to explain the conflict.
C
Thucydides recorded both the Greek and Spartan sides of the war to ensure that the history was correct.
D
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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