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Thursday, 27 Oct 2011
HSC Test yourself: Ancient History
Section IV - Historical Periods 25 marks
Question 40 - Option I - Greece: The Greek world 446-399 BC
(a) What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.
- Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War I.23
With reference to this quotation, to what extent was the growth of Athenian power the cause of the Peloponnesian War?