The Greek Historian Thucydides Differed from Herodotus in That the Former

question 24

Multiple Choice

The Greek historian Thucydides differed from Herodotus in that the former

• A)was unconcerned with divine forces as a factor in history.
• B)devoted much of his writing to economic history.
• C)never wrote about warfare but only about political and cultural matters.
• D)was unconcerned with teaching lessons based on history.
• E)exhibited a critical attitude toward his sources but Herodotus did not.

---

Definitions:

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion or variability of a sample dataset, representing how much the data points differ from the sample mean.

Mound-Shaped

Description of a symmetric, bell-shaped distribution, often associated with the normal distribution.

Mean

A statistical measure that calculates the average value of a set of numbers by dividing the sum of all values by the number of values.

Median

The middle value in a dataset when it is ordered from smallest to largest, or the mean of the two middle numbers if there is an even number of values.