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GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Some historians estimate that in the Great Chicago Fire of

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RMD007 wrote:

Can anyone please explain the use of past perfect tense here?

I know that past perfect tense makes sense here, because it shows the correct time frame. But, as far as I know, we use past perfect tense and simple past tense only when the events are related to each other.
In this case, since there is not logical relation in these events, I chose E.


A comparison may be considered a logical relation. Here "as.. as" compares an event in past and two events in past of past. Hence use of past
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