It's pretty much proven that Troy wasn't a mythical city,but one that existed in Anatolia,Turkey and could've been Greek or Hittite.Now if Troy had survived the Trojan War or won it,what would be the ramifications for the Ancient World? What would've changed and what would've stayed the same?
Surviving Troy
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A surviving Troy might have been able to keep the Greeks from colonising the Bosporus and Black Sea. Since IOTL Athens got much of its food from its colonies on the Black Sea, we might perhaps see a smaller and hence less influential Athens.
Archaeological evidence at the site seems to show that the city was still inhabited after the time it would have been sacked by the Greeks in a historical Trojan War.
It seems that the native language in Troy was Luwian, but the upper crust may have spoken Greek at home. We have Hittite records of a Trojan king Alaksandu, which closely resembles Alexandros, a name in Homer for Paris. Not to mention that a number of Trojan names in the Iliad, such as Hektor, have been found in contemporary Linear B records as personal names of Mycenaeans.
Troy may have been a vassal state of the Hittite Empire as a letter from a Hittite Emperor to King of the Ahhiyawa (who are believed to the Mycenaeans) talks of their being some war or hostility between them over Wilusa (which is believed to be Troy).
Might be possible. Not too big time gap between Sea Peoples and supposed time of Trojan War.
There's an old theory that refugee Trojans may have been part of the Sea Peoples.
Would be interesting if there wound up being a historical basis for the Aeneid.One of whom happened to be named Aeneas...