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[[File:608px-J_G_Trautmann_Das_brennende_Troja.jpg|thumbnailleft|thumb|150px|The Burning of Troy by Johann Georg Trainman]]
==[[Did the Trojan War really happen?]]==
The foundation of Western literature can be traced back to Ancient Greek epic. The Homeric works known as ''The Iliad'' and ''The Odyssey'' are among the most well known works of literature in the western canon. They tell the story of the Trojan War, a ten year siege of a city called Troy by the Greeks.
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==[[How did ancient Professional Armies develop?]]==
Warfare has been a constant throughout human history and conflict can certainly be traced back to our hominid ancestors in our evolutionary past. While technology today is often used as the distinguishing characteristic of warfare, the development of the professional army, that is fulltime soldiers and formations of a standing army, was also an important factor in making warfare an affair conducted throughout the year and allowed the establishment of large-scale states and empires to be possible.
