History of the Ancient World

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History of the Ancient World
Thursday 12:30-3:30 pm

Several scrolls tucked under his arm, Seimei unrolled several before he found the one he wanted and stretched it out across the front of the class for their discussion question.

The Peloponnesian War which ran from 431 to 404 BC was a catastrophe for Greece for what reasons?

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After a thorough reading of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War -- and I am greatly troubled by the soldiers who were taken to the rock quarry to die on mass -- I believe a succinct answer to your question is that civil war makes civil hands unclean tears a country up so much that outside forces can easily infiltrate into the system and take over once the internal forces have broken each other up so much.