Is the Trojan War the first war between the East and the West?

It is hard to say whether contemporary political and cultural definitions of East and West was also valid in the last Bronze Age (1180 B.C.E. is the supposed date of the Trojan War), However, in terms of political geography, we can think that the expansionist political conflicts between Hittites and Mycenaeans might have created a political boundary during the 1200s B. C. E. and earlier in the west coast of Anatolia. Furthermore, the letter from Ahhijawa (Akhas/Mycenaean Empire) that was found in the Hittite archives dated 1300 B. C. E shows us that a political crisis similar to the present Eastern Aegean islands question existed at that time as well. It is in this historical background that the Trojan War was considered to be a war between the East and the West and interpreted as such, especially by the post-5th century B. C. E. historians.

While recounting in detail why and how the great war started between the Helens and the Barbarians, meaning the Persians (it is useful to indicate here that the term "Barbarian" is used by the Helens to define those foreigners who do not speak the Greek language thus saying things like 'bar bar'). In the first book of his immortal work The Histories, the 5th century B. C. E historian Herodotus from Anatolia refers to the Trojan War.

Persians accept this event as the beginning of a great hostility. For this reason, during his military expedition to the West in 480 B. C. E. Xerkes first stops at Troy, which he accepts as a holy city. Furthermore, in 334 B. С. Е. Alexander the Great did the same at the beginning of his Eastern expedition. Indeed, the Trojan War, which is known as the mother of all wars in history, took place at a location where the East and the West are geographically and probably also culturally in closest proximity, in the Dardanelles, i.e. in Troy. Therefore we can conclude that this was the first war between the East and the West.