Thucydides

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

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Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. When was Thucydides born?Circa 460 BC
2. Where was Thucydides born?Athens, Greece
3. What is the career?Athenian general and historian
4. Who was Thucydides?Thucydides was an Athenian general and historian who lived around 460 BC. He wrote a detailed account of the war between Athens and Sparta.
5. What war did Thucydides write about?He wrote about the Peloponnesian War, a long conflict between the Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta.

Historiography: The study of the writing of history, including its methods and principles.
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Empirical Methods: Approaches to research that rely on observation, experimentation, and verifiable evidence.