Thucydides wrote “What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta”. Based on this idea, a Harvard professor Graham Allison coined the phrase “Thucydides Trap”.
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Roman politician Cicero called Herodotus “the Father of History” and his book the History was the founding work of history.
The Thirty Tyrants killed and exiled many democratic leaders and confiscated their property. They maintained power for ____ months until the exiles recaptured the city and rebuilt the democracy.
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
Philip was assassinated in 336 BC. He was succeeded by his____year old son Alexander the Great, the great king who created one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty.
A. 20
B. 21
C. 22
D. 23
In ancient Greece, hegemony means the political and military dominance of a city-state over other city-states rather than a derogatory term in Chinese translation meaning to bully or to be a tyrant. In English it has negative meaning.