Thucydides was
A) a writer of highly amusing comedies, including The Wasps.
B) a politician and lawgiver who devised the constitution of Sparta.
C) the first truly scientific historian who described the causes of the Peloponnesian War.
D) a scientist who calculated the approximate circumference of the earth.
E) a famous physician who advocated the theory of four humors that maintained balance in
the human body.
C
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a. Berlin. b. Moscow. c. Beijing. d. Saigon. e. Jerusalem.
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