Status Updates From The Life of Greece

"The Greco-Persian War was the most momentous conflict in European history, for it made Europe possible. It won for Western civilization the opportunity to develop its own economic life - unburdened with alien tribute or taxation - and its own political institutions, free from the dictation of Oriental kings. It won for Greece a clear road for the first great experiment in liberty..." (242).

Second year second volume. I decided to read through all 11 by reading one volume a year. These are big books, lots of pages but the information/history provided is great at least in my opinion.