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Epic card · Science
Thucydides Trap, an Epic card
The Thucydides Trap refers to the idea that when a rising power threatens to displace an established one, the result is often war.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 600,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Thucydides Trap quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Thucydides Trap card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
The concept originated with Herman Wouk, the novelist and World War II veteran, who used it in his Admiral Raymond A. Spruance lecture, delivered on April 16, ____, at the U.S. Naval War College.
Answer
1980s. The concept originated with Herman Wouk, the novelist and World War II veteran, who used it in his Admiral Raymond A. Spruance lecture, delivered on April 16, 1980, at the U.S. Naval War College. From the Thucydides Trap article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Guelphs and Ghibellines. Guelphs and Ghibellines 75 · Thucydides Trap 72 · John Grubb 69 · Battle of Sedan 65 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Thucydides Trap. Thucydides Trap 600,000 · Knossos 280,000 · 2015 Canning by-election 3,000 · SS Peveril 540 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The concept originated with Herman Wouk, the novelist and World War II veteran, who used it in his Admiral Raymond A. Spruance lecture, delivered on April 16, 1980, at the U.S. Naval War College.
- Wouk compared the U.S.–Soviet Cold War to the "cold war" that developed between Athens and Sparta once they had defeated Persia, their common enemy, remarking:And more than two millennia later we seem still trapped in Thucydides' world.
- None of the ways in which those quarrelsome Greeks behaved is suited to these dread times of nuclear menace, yet we still behave in those ways, and can find no other.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Thucydides Trap article was read about 600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Thucydides Trap
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Thucydides Trap (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : user:shakko, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
