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D) flow into the same sea as the Rhine
E) are not connected with the Rhine naturally but artificially
198 -Apart from being a transportation route, the Rhine ---- .
A) contributes to the tourist industry in
the Ruhr region
B) is seen by the Dutch as a link to the east
C) provides natural beauty for the local people
D) serves as a political barrier as well
E) has no other important function
Herodotus was a Greek historian born in Halicarnassus four years before the battle of Thermopylae.
He is believed to have been exiled in his later life because of his opposition to the tyrant Lygdamis.
He spent much
time on Samos, thereafter travelling in the Persian Empire,
Scythia and Egypt,
observing with fascination the local customs and beliefs. He lived some time in Athens and travelled
as an Athenian colonist to Thurli,
in Italy, where he is supposed to have spent the rest of his life
writing The Persian
Wars, earning the title of Father of History from Caesar. This 9 -book work is
an
inquiry into the origins of,
and a description of, the Persian invasions of Greece. The first 6 books tell
of the customs, geography and history of the combatants and their neighbours; the last three treat the
war itself.
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