Talk:Anatolia/@comment-3171148-20170216093233/@comment-31031245-20170216095446

Fair enough, it makes sense to remove a part of the trivia. It's just that some "Asia Minor" features hinted towards them.

As for the Trojan War, it wasn't a civil war, despite the fact named Trojan characters received Greek names in the Iliad. Mycenean Greece included a smaller region than Archaic and Classical Greece (which also included colonies throughout the Mediterranean, South Italy, Sicily + a part of Asia Minor, in coastal regions).

Trojans were possibly (their origins are debated) an Anatolian people, or another culture native to the region, not Greeks. The Romans indeed claimed descendance from the Trojans (Aeneas), but for internal legalization reasons and to claim a glorious past. Also, they adopted many features of Greek culture with the conquests of Greece, though many noble Romans were opposed to this influence of Greek culture.