ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Gordium

Gordium is a very old city in a country called Turkey. A long time ago, there was a story about a king named Gordius who rode into the city on a wagon. This wagon had a special knot called the Gordian Knot that the king made. It was so complicated that nobody could untie it.

Many people tried to untie the knot, but they couldn't figure out how. A man called Alexander the Great saw the knot and wanted to try. He thought about it for a while and then realized that he didn't have to untie the knot, he could just cut through it with his sword. And that's what he did.

After that, the story of the Gordian Knot became very famous. It meant that if something is really difficult to solve, sometimes you just need to think of a different way to solve it. Today, Gordium is still a famous place, and people often visit to see where the Gordian Knot was.