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In the 1990s, researchers used DNA from corpses at Kerameikos to correlate a disease outbreak during this war to typhoid fever. A passage about this war inspired Graham T. Allison to coin the name of a “trap” often invoked in discussions of US-China relations. A speech that offered “comfort, not condolences,” to bereaved citizens during this war was given by a leader killed during a (*) plague outbreak. During this war’s Archidamian phase, (10[1])one city was defended by the Long Walls. The argument that “the strong do what they can, and the weak suffer (10[1])what they must” was invoked during one side’s siege of Melos during this war. Thucydides wrote a history of, for 10 points, what war between Athens and Sparta? ■END■

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