Yes he was. When Roosevelt met with Churchill in the middle of the Atlantic, he was showing his support for Britain and subsequently freedom in general. He made no formal declaration of hostilities.
I believe its the country had previously been isolated from the other ancient civilizations, and the Silk Road allowed a cultural exchange because the Silk Road was the main way of trading in that part of the world in those days.
By the Achaeans (Greeks) the trojan war was against the city of Troy after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
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Muhammed was a member of the Hashim clan in Mecca