The Peloponnesian war destroys the Greek balance
Twenty-seven years of war between Athens and Sparta exhausted the classical Greek world; Thucydides chronicled it as a study of power, fear and miscalculation.
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The Peloponnesian war destroys the Greek balance
Twenty-seven years of war between Athens and Sparta exhausted the classical Greek world; Thucydides chronicled it as a study of power, fear and miscalculation.
The First World War industrializes destruction
Machine guns, artillery, gas, tanks and railways killed some 20 million people in four years of industrial stalemate and collapsed four empires.