Fill in the Blanks Greek MytheologyOnline version THE TROJAN HORSE by Flexon Vira 1 princess wooden Trojan 3000 signaled strong warships Greek confused Almost years ago , the Trojans and Greeks fought a long and terrible war . Why ? Because the Trojans had captured a beautiful princess Helen . But this is a story about a horse and not the princess : ) The Greeks fought a battle with Troy but could not get in the tall walls around the city . They tried everything but it began to look that Greeks would not win the battle . So the Greeks thought that if they could not win the battle with their physical strength then they should win it with their brains . They thought of a smart trick . They started building a horse . The Trojans kept wondering why the Greeks were building a horse . Some laughed and some were puzzled . Then one day when they saw the greek armies sailing away , they got . Soon in few days , all the , army tents and armies disappeared . The only thing that remained were the 80 ft tall strange wooden horse . Some wanted to burn the horse but the King was too proud of defeating Greeks and ordered to bring the horse inside the city walls as a symbol of their victory . After pulling the horse inside they partied and danced all night . Then they went to sleep . It was now that the Greeks played the rest of their trick . Not all the Greeks had sailed away on the warships . A very brave Greek soldier named Odysseus had chosen some tough fighting men to hide inside the hollow wooden horse . Around thirty soldiers stepped out in the dark and their warships that had been hiding around a nearby island . Then they opened the Trojan city gates and the Greek army swarmed in . The Greeks caught the Trojans completely off guard . After a fierce battle they took Helen back to Greece .
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