The city of Troy was part of a small independent confederation named Assuwa that tried to resist the Hittite expansion but which eventually yielded and became a sort of vassal state to the Hittite empire.

There were electric vehicles around, but four-wheel drive electrics were pretty damned rare, and the snow was deep enough to stop anything that didn't have a minimum of four big wheels spinning at all times.

to allay popular excitement

Also with sauour of hym, and stynkyng, the oost was greeued; and he that aᶜ lytil byfore demyde hym toᵈ touche the sterrisᵉ of heuen, no man miȝte beere hym, for vnsuffryng of stynke.