Analysis of the Troyes war and its impact on the economic power of Greeks

Analysis of the Troyes war and its impact on the economic power of Greeks

We don't even have the certainty of the existence of this location. Many have questioned whether Troy was an actual location, village, kingdom from ancient Greece. Some people just say that it is a pure invention and part of Greek mythology. 

Other people think it may exist at some point, as some items were found in Turkey in Asia by archeologists. So Troy might be a place in Asia. This might explain why Greeks spend so many times fighting (according to Homer). For those who don't know the story, Greeks led by Agamemnon, Achilles, and Ulysses, had spent ten years trying to enter into the wall of Troy and failed, until they used the horse trick what many of us know as Trojan horse. Then, the Trojans let them enter their wall through this big horse without knowing that there were people inside this big horse. In my opinion, it wasn't a loyal war but who cares, it's a war and it seems like there was no loyalty in wars. If there were we wouldn't have so many people dying in wars. The responsible would seat together until they found a solution to their differences. 

By looking at information about this story I found that this story might be a true story in the décor but the reasons causing this war were way beyond what Homer presented. For some, it was more related to economic reasons than a men-women relationship, love story triangle, or whatever that might create some anger which is possible but not exactly the case here. 

One of my questions would be, why would someone bring one of the best army fighting for ten years? It is because of love, respect, or economic reasons? We still don't have an exact answer but any of those might be true and I think it might be more than one reason too.

I don't have the exact timeline in my head but I think during those periods like the Before J.C. years there were thousands of wars, most of them were entertained because of the thirst for more power. People, kings, leaders wanted to expand their power, their territories and live forever in the mind of others because of what they call greatness. For this reason, they were attached to their respect, their legacies, and whatever that might keep themselves as big and immortal as possible in History.

Let's analyze why some people would spend a lot of resources whether financial, human, precious stones, and whatever the valuable things put into those wars. 

First of all, those armies haves fleets full of ships; they do need food for thousands or hundreds of soldiers and have weapons created from rare stones or whatever the material might be. To see the value of those resources we might try to look at the U.S. army nowadays. of course those armies didn't have the same tools at their disposal but if we analyze it right by dropping out the inflation in the cost we still can argue that the cost was the same, not nominally but in term of values. For instance, the U.S. army does spend more than 100 billion for one year. Imagine spending 100 billion dollars for ten years, that's a lot of money invested for taking back Helene from Troy. It is certainly out of context as they haven't those large amounts of money but in my opinion, the values of resources involved by the Greeks were even higher than what we say earlier. Resources were harder to find than now so in my opinion at today's values their resources would have been way more than 100 billion converted in actual money.

So what's our point? My point is that there was more than a love story involved in this one. Let's look deeper at it. I even imagine that the Trojan people were manipulating more than once in this story. There were even two Trojan horses. Helena was for sure the first Trojan horse. Let me expand, The Greeks needed a reason for this fight, so without the kidnapping of Helena, there would have no war of Troy.

If there were a record of Troy I would search for their economic success, their abundance, their resources natural or financial, and precious stones. I would look for how was life in Troy. But I feel like those resources were very abundant in Troy, their trades were very fruitful. In my opinion, Greek governing people wanted to conquer this territory and have access to those resources. Then came up this kidnapping which was an opportunity for them to declare this war and ask for help from their friends from outside of Sparta or Athens.

I'm asking myself why would they let them go with Helena? Did they find out that she wasn't there after Paris and his team left and were too far to catch them? That makes no sense for one of the best armies in this period. I think maybe they might haven't planned this before, but this occasion would give them enough reason to start a war with reasons way beyond what we might read, study for a long time.

Spending ten years fighting, doing big expenses, building at the end a big horse is costly, so I think the reward expected was way more important than getting Helena back. In the movie, we saw Greek soldiers burned things when they get into the city of Troy, keep some people in captivity and even kill others. In my opinion, all of those actions were true and possible but I'm sure about the fact that the most important things were not burnt, they keep all the wealth, precious stones, and other resources that might have been the strength of Troy. Moreover, I think that they might even bring a new responsible (King, consul, ambassador) to manage this location and send resources to them while they are in Greece. At this period it was usual to see them instore slavery, it was pretty sure that they enslave some of the Trojans to work the lands and looking for precious stones, etc... 

 There were several stories from antiquity, and even After Jesus Christ, with the same background. When you take the example of Marc Antoine and Cleopatra which were then involved in the war between Octavian supporters and Mark Antoine troops, it's almost the same background of love, power, and respect. Over those reasons are still economic ones because as we usually say money (wealth) brings power or money (wealth) enhances power.

But what if it was an honorific egocentric reason behind this war from every big actor taking part in this incident?

At the end of the day, only one thing is sure, Greece is known for being a proud nation.

Troyes war showed us how weak we can also be when it comes to our feelings. Our feelings are our best weapon but also our Achilles. 

Achilles was one of the biggest heroes in this story but he was used as a weapon to serve Greek power. Achille might have been the best but there were multiple examples of guys like Achille fighting for Greece. This can show us another aspect of Greece's economic evolution somehow. Let me get clearer. At this period and up until nowadays the most important countries invest in efficiency and army. Efficiency means people with high potential and helps them riching their best. When you have the best tools and skilled people it's easier to become the best and manage international greatness among the others.

Widley