Horses in warfare
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horses-in-warfare-175-5314167
title:
Horses in warfare
text:
The first evidence of horses in warfare dates from Eurasia between 4000 and 3000 BC. A Sumerian illustration of warfare from 2500 BC depicts some type of equine pulling wagons. By 1600 BC, improved harness and chariot designs made chariot warfare common throughout the Ancient Near East, and the earliest written training manual for war horses was a guide for training chariot horses written about 1350 BC. As formal cavalry tactics replaced the chariot, so did new training methods, and by 360 BC, t
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Use of equines in combat
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_warfare
date created:
2006-11-05T04:13:29Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T04:36:07Z
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