Thucydides, unlike Herodotus, regarded history as being the product of the choices and actions of human beings, and looked at cause and effect, rather than as the result of divine intervention (though Herodotus was not wholly committed to this idea himself).
Mi tᾰt ikatabᾰn uɗəf ən eclan əd ibq-igdᾰh dᾰɣ tanfo t-ᾰttiwajᾰt fᾰl umᾰɣ ən ajaraw ən timusnawen ajjootnen əjjanen fᾰl ᾰšaɣalᾰn ᾰjjootnen.