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The Trojan War, the long years of bloody conflict between the Greeks called against the Trojans. Precipitating cause of this quarrel, according to legend, the abduction of Helen of Troy, the wife of King Menelaus of Sparta, by Paris Prince have been made of Troy. In reality it was probably more of a struggle of the Greeks, the purpose of setting on the Dardanelles, on the trade route to the Black Sea. The Trojan War is said to have taken place more than 3100 years ago in the Bronze Age. When the Greeks under King Agamemnon of Mycenae fought his brother Menelaus and Odysseus, Achilles and Ajax. On the side of the Trojans led by Hector, the eldest son of King Priam of Troy, were Paris, Troilus and Aeneas. The Trojan War was only decided in the tenth year of the siege of Troy by a trick of the Greeks in their favor. The Greeks built on the advice of Odysseus, a giant wooden horse, in whose belly the bravest of their heroes hidden. After the alleged withdrawal of the Greeks, the Trojans brought the wooden horse (a "Trojan horse") and with his conqueror in the city. Troy was destroyed by the Greeks, most of its inhabitants were killed or enslaved.

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