The Trojan War by David Leftwich

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
03/17/1000	The Goddess of Discord, Eris was left out of the god's banquet	To get back at the gods she threw a golden apple that said "for the fairest." The Goddesses fought over who was the fairest.
03/17/1000	Zeus sends the Goddesses to Paris	Zeus sent them to decide who was the fairest
03/20/1000	The Goddesses' Bribes	Aphrodite, Hera and Athena each bribed Paris. Aphrodite's bribe of the most beautiful women in the world won.
03/24/1000	Paris goes to get the fairest women in the world, Helen	Paris stole Helen from a man in Greece and went back to Troy
03/25/1000	The Greeks Retaliate	The angry man tells the Greeks, and they get ready to attack. They need to retrieve their three best warriors, Odysseus, Achilles, and Thetis.
03/27/1000	The Greeks Attempt to Retrieve the 3 Warriors	The Greeks forced Odysseus to join the army by force. The Greeks tricked Achilles into going. The Greeks did not get Thetis to go
07/25/1000	The Trojan War Starts	Achilles, the Greek hero, and Hector, the Trojan hero, were told by Achilles' mom that they would die in this war.
07/26/1000	The War Stays at a Stalemate	The fighting continued for nine years without anyone taking a clear advantage.
03/25/1009	The War Starts to Shift	The Greek, Agamemnon, took a priest's daughter. The man whose daughter was taken prayed to Apollo. Apollo attacked the Greeks with fire until she was released.
03/27/1009	The Gods now Take Sides	Hera, Athena, Apollo, Zeus, and Artemis favored the Trojans. Poseidon and Aphrodite favored the Greeks
04/02/1009	Zeus Tries to give the Trojans victory	Zeus has the Trojans attack the Greeks while Achilles was sleeping. This forced the Trojans the leave Achilles behind. Achilles would not try catch up.
04/02/1009	Paris and Menelaus fight 1 on 1	In the middle of the battle, Paris and Menelaus fight. Paris got hurt so Aprodite brought him through a cloud to Troy.
04/27/1009	Diomedes Defeats Ares	Ares joined the Trojan side and pushed the Greeks back. Ajax and Diomedes were the best Greeks left. Then with the help of Athena, Diomedes drove a spear through Ares and defeated him.
05/18/1009	Zeus Gets Involved For the 2nd time	Without Ares, the Trojans got pushed far back. Zeus then helped the Trojans and pushed the Greeks all the way back to their ships.
06/01/1009	Hera Gives the Greeks Some Time	Hera distracts Zeus by kissing him and the Trojans got pushed back again.
06/26/1009	Achilles is Begged to Come Back and Join Greeks	Some Greeks go to Achilles' camp where he has been the whole time to retrieve him. Achilles says no, but his best friend, Patroclus, said he would dress up as Achilles and fight.
07/02/1009	Achilles said he will avenge Patroclus	Patroclus was killed by Hector. This angered Achilles and he said he was going back to war to kill Hector. This gave the Greeks a huge advantage.
07/23/1009	Hector is Killed	When Achilles returns to the Greeks, Athena tricks Hector into fighting Achilles. Achilles killed him and then stripped him of all of his possesions.
08/02/1009	Achilles Gets Killed	Paris shot a guided arrow that killed Achilles.
08/06/1009	Ajax's Death	Ajax did not get Achilles' arms so he plotted against the army. Athena protected the army by tapping Ajax and making him go crazy. When he was crazy, he killed a whole field of cattle. When he woke up, he killed himself.
09/03/1009	The Greeks learn the key to victory	The Greeks are told that they need Hercules' bow and arrow. The person who had it was left behind by them on an island.
10/15/1009	Odysseus convinces the man to come with them	Once the man got to battle, he killed Paris.
01/08/1010	The Trojan Horse is Thought Up	Odysseus made a horse that would sneek the army into Troy. They were going to say that the Greeks did not want the Trojans to take it so they would take it.
01/26/1010	The Trojan Horse is Used	A man from the Greeks told the Trojans that the Greeks left. They just sailed their boats out of view. Then the Trojans took the horse into Troy. At night, the Greeks Slaughtered the Trojans. Achilles' son killed the Trojan's king.
01/26/1010	Aeneas and Helen Escape	Aeneas was Aphrodite's son so she transported him away from the massacre.
01/27/1010	Troy is Defeated	With the death of Hector's son and the king, Troy was defeated.