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Considering that it was the Greek Achaeans versus...?

...the Trojans who lived in what is now Turkey....
....four hundred years (at least) before writing became popular,, and that the Athenian and Spartan Greeks squared off against the Persians, and that the Romans, vying for western hegemony over the Parthians, as well as considering the Crusades...

...is it really a matter of Christianity versus Islam, or is just a matter of East versus West as it has been since time Inmemorium?

Well, before the Islamic conquest (and for some even now), the Persians would have argued that it's a north vs south struggle, rather different from what they were used to for a millennium.

Indeed there was a lot of east-west to-ing and fro-ing around the fertile crescent as well as across Asia Minor, as these were the populated zones. Persia was the easternmost devleoped area of this, and Greece the western one.

The Arabian horizon only came about much later, and they conquered much more westwards along North Africa as well as making significant progress conquering Persia and its hinterland. The early Islamic conquests were seen by the Byzantines as just one more heresy from that part of the world, the desert fringes of their empire, and largely worth ignoring. Until it was too late.

Thus the Sassanid Persians would have seen it as an invasion from the west, while Europe would have seen it as from the east. The location of Arabia in the south-central area between them explains that. However, as most of Europe remained Christian when Islam conquered the east, an east-west analogy may be applicable today.

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