Thucydides was an Athenian who
a. wrote the history of the Persian Wars.
b. wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War.
c. directed the building program that produced the Parthenon.
d. described the chaos of the warring Greek states in the fourth century.
b
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a. the cult of domesticity. b. nativism. c. Unitarianism. d. rugged individualism. e. racism.
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A) being the greatest popularizer of the new science. B) acting as Louis XIV's chief minister and director of the Academie des Sciences. C) his relentless attacks on the Catholic Church. D) his rigorous scientific investigation. E) taking a negative view of a secular world.
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