Ten year conflict that ended with the Greeks giving a gift of a large wooden horse where Greeks hiding in the horse crept out and opened the city gates and burning Troy to the ground is known as the .....

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Ten year conflict that ended with the Greeks giving a “gift” of a large wooden horse where Greeks hiding in the horse crept out and opened the city gates and burning Troy to the ground is known as the ____

A	War of Troy
B	Trojan War
C	War on Trojans
D	War of Greece

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -First mentioned in the Odyssey, it describes how Greek soldiers were able to take the city of Troy after a fruitless ten-year siege by hiding in a giant horse supposedly left as an offering to the goddess Athena.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Trojans believed the horse was a peace offering and dragged it inside their city. However, hidden inside the horse was a group of Greek warriors. While the Trojans slept, the Greeks crept out. They killed the guards and threw open the doors of the city to the rest of the army.

Detailed explanation-3: -The story of the Trojan War-the Bronze Age conflict between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece–straddles the history and mythology of ancient Greece and inspired the greatest writers of antiquity, from Homer, Herodotus and Sophocles to Virgil.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Trojans believed the huge wooden horse was a peace offering to their gods and thus a symbol of their victory after a long siege. They pulled the giant wooden horse into the middle of the city.

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