The Horse In Human History
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The Horse in Human History
Author | : Pita Kelekna |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2009-04-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521516595 |
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This book assesses the impact of the horse on human society from 4000 BC to 2000 AD, by first describing initial horse domestication on the Pontic-Caspian steppes and the early development of driving and riding technologies. It traces the radiation of newly mobile equestrian cultures across Europe, Asia, and North Africa. It then documents the transmission of steppe chariotry and cavalry to sedentary states, the high economic importance of the horse, and the socio-political evolution of equestrian empires, which from antiquity into the modern era expanded across continents.