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Troy: everything you wanted to know

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The Trojan War in the Thirteenth Century

We now think there were at least nine cities, and each of them are divided using letters of the alphabet. The ones that matter for us because theyr thirteenth century, are six. That is, city six level h, six h, and city seven, level a. So if there was the trojan war some time in the thirsteenth century, we should look for it. We should look at the horizon. What was the city like in six h and seven a? Six h, massive walls. And that is a really important point, because it does indeed lend credence to the idea that troy was very hard to take by siege.

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