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Peleus, a mortal was first married to Antigone before he accidentally killed her father. After Peleus went into exile and Antigone killed herself, he met Thetis, a sea nymph. In the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, mortals and every god was invited except for Discord. As revenge, she threw a golden apple to the wedding for "the fairest" over which Zeus (who planned the wedding as well) could not choose who to give it to
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Becasue Zeus wouldn't choose who to give the golden apple to from the wedding the Pelius and Thetism so a contest was made (judged by the god Paris) for the three most beautiful goddesses in order to determine who gets the apple. Instead of being fair, Paris insetad took into account bribes from the goddesses.
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Aphrodite was chosen by Paris, she led him to Sparta where Helen lived. Paris then kidnapped her.
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Achilles, the son of Peleus & Thetis, damaged the countryside greatly during the first few years of the war.
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Searching for the city was very difficult, as they (the Greeks) did not know exactly where Helen was so of course they encountered obstacles.
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The Greeks and Trojans fought roughly, the Greeks were winning as in the war they basically destroyed the Trojan economy and also they had a much bigger quantity of resources.
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Troy's countryside was ravaged greatly during this time of war, however, it's people were well and survived. This all lasted nine years until the Trojans finally decided to make a major move to win with an idea from Odysseus.
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Odysseus' idea was to build a huge wooden horse to give to the Greeks, howveer, there would be a small group of warriors concealed within the wooden horse.
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The Trojan Horse was built, the men hidden within it. The Greeks appeared to sail back to their home, maybe faking defeat and only leaving behind the horse in Troy.
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Despite many cautions as to not take the horse unknowingly left by the Greek, the Trojans still took the horse into the city accepting it as a victory. However, when take into the city walls, the men inside the horse came out and destroyed Troy.
