Which of the following is an important greek contribution to the history.

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the greeks were the first people to study history in a organized manner.

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Herodotus (about 484-425 BC) is known as "the father of history," because his writing pioneered the field of historical research.  Indeed, we get the word "history" from him.  He called his writing about the Greeks and their wars with Persia the ἱστορία (historia), which in Greek meant "investigations."  We now call his book The Histories, but it could be called "The Investigations."  In doing his investigations, Herodotus payed attention to all sorts of sources -- myths, legends, oral histories, his own observations, etc.  

The second generation of Greek history-writing featured an even more organized and thorough researcher, Thucydides (about 460-400 BC).  Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War sought to be as fair and objective as possible in his account of what happened in the conflict between Athens and Sparta.

The ancient Greeks essentially began the field of history writing (historiography) in the way that we think of that subject today.

The Greeks were the first people to study history in a organized manner.

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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