s, thereby, defeating the chariots. The Greeks had an infantry of runners so that made it very hard for the Trojans to try and kill the Greeks, which resulted in the victory of the Achaean foot soldiers over the cavalry of the Trojans. The ultimate irony of the Trojan horse was that the Greeks left the horse as a peace offering, symbolic of the Trojan victory, but it turned out to be symbolic of the Trojan defeat. Ramesses III defeated the invaders (Sea Peoples) by having the best infantry and chariots in that time period. He tried to change the fighting capabilities of his forces and also used the infantry to kill the Sea people. Ramesses III boasted that the Egyptian foot soldiers once insulted had fought like bulls on the battlefield. The Egyptian empire had been built and maintained over hundreds of years as a towering social pyramid in which the king, his court, officers, and chariot forces reserved the right for them to take over Egypt. Egypt was never a society that viewed its general population as much more than the “beast of burden” or a sign to the Egyptians. (Silberman, 28)....
