EDIT: and Iroh is the wise old man who warned the Trojans that it would be smarter to burn the wooden horse than bring it inside the city.

Well, technically the war in Avatar lasted for longer than 100 years too. But still, the point remains the same - it was a very long time to be at war with someone.

Another good comparison. Although the actual world of Avatar seems mostly oriental, the plot, and the way things are run in the world, and how the people behave, all seem fairly western based.

The second Punic War (Rome vs Carthage), could actually be taken as being similar to the one in Avatar, but personally, I think that it makes much more sense to say that Carthage was like the Fire Nation.

Basic outline of war:

Hannibal Barca, known as the "father of military strategy", began the war by invading Italy with an army of African and Spanish mercenaries, as well as some 60 elephants. Despite appearing at a terrific disadvantage, he was victorious in every battle, eventually even threatening the city of Rome. His goal was nothing less than to burn it and all the lands around it to the ground (or so the Romans said). He was stopped in the end when a Roman general named Scipio Africanus had the idea of taking a Roman army across the sea to attack Carthage, which with Hannibal attacking Italy with its army was defenceless. The tactic worked - Hannibal was forced to withdraw from Italy to defend his homeland. When he met Scipio in battle he found that the Romans had devised new tactics to counter his troops, and he was defeated.

It's not exact, but parts of the strategies involved in the war are similar to the principles surrounding The Day of Black Sun.

actually genghis khan and his descendants were not that good. they used to make piles of the ears of dead and captured enemeies. his descendant hulagu khan sacked baghdad, the knowledge centre of the wolrd at the time. baghdad would never reach that amount of glory or productivity ever again. another descendant of his timurlane sacked damascus and made a pyramid of the heads of all the scholars in the cirty and burned all the books.

actually the avatar war was really based on the asian front of WW2 the japanese were an archiplago and so is the firenation. large swaths of the earth kingdom were taken over and so was china by japan. it could also be the western frotn. German=firenation

earthkingdom= russia(large parts conquered. people have strength and pride)

northern water tribe=england. its north to the fire nation and the seige of the north was much like the battle of britain. many ships or airplanes were assembled butnin the end they were repulsed

Airnomads= the jews. genocided by the germans or the fire nation

southern water tribe was probably france or some small european country that was sacked and rendered powerless.

hector gets killed and the wise old man who wanred the trojans to burn the wooden horse was prince hector.

Thats pretty much what I was going for except I think Hector wouldve been Sokka with being a great leader and strategist. Aang was a great hero, but a leader not so much. Idk where Aang would fit into the Trojan war. Maybe Paris, but he was the dumbass who started the war.

I beg to disagree. Nobody can deny that Genghis was a brutal conqueror, but he was an incredibly good ruler. As the leader of the empire he had a policy of racial and religious tolerance, allowing anyone in the empire, no matter their ethnicity, to serve in the highest positions of the government he put together. His code of laws was vastly superior to those of the people he had conquered, dispensing justice more efficiently, and more importantly it was an impartial one that refused to favor anyone over someone else. Genghis also paid great attention to the reestablishment of the Silk Road trade, which had declined in the past. His efforts in that regard resulted in economic prosperity from China to Bulgaria. He also used the silk road to spread technological advancements of the Chinese to all the peoples of his empire, and from them on to Europe. He and his heirs invested a great deal of time and money rebuilding the kingdoms they had shattered. The new China that they rebuilt in many ways far outshone the old one. The diplomatic laws and trade agreements that Genghis set up to manage all this laid the foundation for the laws and trade agreements that still exist today between most of the countries of Asia. Cultural learning and education were encouraged.

So Genghis remains something of an enigma. While he was certainly not a good man, he was not a bad man either.

Interesting observation. It is a fact that no world, real or imaginary, is complete without some sort of mysterious "secret society". Back in the time of the Romans it was the Christians, who at the time were persecuted for their beliefs and had to hide. In the Middle Ages it was the Knights Templar, and the rumors that they had survived the crusade against them. Today, as you said, it's the Freemasons. Everyone has a fascination of a sort with the mysterious; the stuff that we know is out there, but remains beyond our reach. This fascination expresses itself in the fact that it is incredibly rare to find a fictional story that does not at some point have some kind of "secret society".