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Hillier talks about world history-Trojan War
War is the beginning and end of the history of any country.

BC 1200, when people were still in the Iron Age, but this story can be handed down. Of course, many times, there is a myth besides the incident itself.

It is said that at a banquet of the gods on Mount Olympus, an uninvited goddess left an apple with the words: The most beautiful goddess will get it.

So the gods wanted apples, so they let Paris, the prince of Troy, choose who to give them to, so all the goddesses promised her that as long as Paris chose herself, she would give him wisdom, wealth, power and so on, but Paris chose Aphrodite, the goddess, because Aphrodite promised him the most beautiful woman in the world as his wife.

Aphrodite fulfilled her promise. He asked Paris to go to Sparta to find the most beautiful woman in the world-Helen, but Helen was the wife of Spartan king Menelaus, and Paris secretly took Helen away. Menelaus was very angry, and the whole of Greece was very angry, ready to attack Troy and take Helen back.

The prelude to the Trojan War was thus opened. ...

In order to defend the Spartans, the Trojans reinforced the city walls. It was very difficult to attack Troy, so the war lasted for ten years.

At this time, the clever Greeks thought of a way: they made a very big Troy with many soldiers in it, so the Greeks retreated and celebrated after the Trojans welcomed the Trojans into the city with joy. The soldiers in the belly came out to capture Troy with the soldiers outside the city. This is the Trojan War that we learned in primary school textbooks. Therefore, people later had a proverb: Beware of gifts from the Greeks.