The Two Thousand Years' War. Questions and answers

Ben Howson, World History per. 6                                                                         02/12/14

Thoughts and Reflections on: The Two Thousand Years' War.

By Walter Karp

The Cold War was a war against America, and the Soviet Union. The Cold War was a war that didn't have a lot of face to face fighting. Acording to Walter Karp, "...The Cold War, is fought indirectly, peripherally, and spasmodically." The Cold War lasted four decades, and "...America and Russia did not cease for a single day", said Walter Karp. Not a lot of stuff happened in The Cold War in those four decades. That is a breaf over view of what the Cold War was.

The Peloponnesian War and The Cold War are quite simular to one another in two ways. One way being in combatants, and the other way being in conflicts. They were simular in combatants, Athens and America were alike. "Athens, like America, was commercial, fast-moving, and far-ranging." says Walter Karp. They also both have a democracy, and also Yankee ingenuity. Russa and Sparta were also alike. "Sparta, as Thucydides tells us, was insulated, agricultural, and sluggish state, rather like Russa." says Walter Karp. The Cold War and the Peloponnesian War alike in conflicts, because there were all great leaders of confederations. Also both of the wars were about hostil political principles. That is a couple of the ways that both The Cold War and The Peloponnesian War were simular to one another.

Both the Americans and the Russans could have learned a thing or two if they would have gone back and read the history of The Peloponnesian War. They could have learned that War takes an impact on every one, and they could of been a little bit more thought full. They could of seen the inevitable chain of events that were acuring around them, and they could of compared their situation to the situations in the Peloponnesian War. When there is domination resistance follows, and then does the conflict, and there is always a conflict.

Studying history can help us not make the same mistakes that other have made, by comparing situation from the past, and comparing and contrasting now from then, and seeing the decisions that they made, and how they turned out. Thcydides says that "Human nature being what it is, events now past will recur in simular or analogous forms." What he is saying is that in one way or another, that humans make the same stupid mistake more than one. To me, this is like your parents telling you about a decision that they regret, and they tell you it, so that you wont make that same stupid mistake. But of course, you forget about it, and think that you will never make that mistake. But a couple years go by, and you are in the position that they were in, and warned you about, but it is to late. If you would have remembered, and realized the situation earlier, then maybe you might of been able to avoid it. So pretty much the Peloponnesian War told and showed the Americans and the Russians what would happen if they made the same mistake that the Athenians and the Spartans made a long, long time ago. But the Americans and the Russians didn't listen, and look back in history, so they pretty much made the same mistake twice. In a way the past is the future, and if we can realize that, we can use it to our advantage, to not make the same mistakes that others have made, by comparing historical events to todays events.