A vein of silver is struck at Laurion in 483 BCE and eighty years later Athens pulls down its own walls. Click any link to read it. Then throw the three counterfactual switches — one of them barely changes anything, and working out which one is the real lesson.
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The chain, 483–403 BCE
Thucydides’ two kinds of cause
Thucydides said the truest cause of the war was the one least openly stated. Sort each item into the kind of cause he thought it was.