Why was Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War an important contribution of ancient Greece? It describes the Acropolis’s role in the war as providing a place of defense and shelter.
This work records the war between Greece and Persia in an attempt to explain the conflict.
Thucydides recorded both the Greek and Spartan sides of the war to ensure that the history was correct.
It was the first time that the Greeks had recorded a history of a war, even though other groups had recorded history.

The letter explains the treatment of prisoners of war. of 3.6 million prisoners of war, only several hundred thousand are still able to work fully. a large part of them has starved, or died, because of the hazards of the weather. . the camp commanders have forbidden the civilian population to put food at the disposal of the prisoners, and they have rather let them starve to death. –letter to defendant wilhelm keitel from alfred rosenberg the letter prosecutors at the nuremberg trials prove that soviet prisoners were a) treated well despite the conditions. b) treated poorly. c) subject to execution. d) subject to crimes against peace.