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Question 1

How did the Greek historian Thucydides differ from Herodotus?
 
  a. Thucydides was unconcerned with spiritual forces as a factor in history.
  b. Thucydides exhibited a critical attitude toward his sources but Herodotus did not.
  c. Thucydides devoted much of his writing to economic history.
  d. Thucydides was unconcerned with teaching lessons based on history.
  e. Thucydides never wrote about warfare but only about political and cultural matters.

Question 2

What was one of the chief causes of the Peloponnesian War?
 
  a. Athens feared Spartan imperialism.
  b. Sparta feared the power of Athens and its maritime empire.
  c. Athens entered into an alliance with the Persians.
  d. Corinth and Megara attacked Sparta.
  e. Athens feared another Persian invasion.



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