Horse Is Domesticated
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Military History, Agriculture
- Subcategories: Animals, Endangered Species, Zoology, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: Asian History, Middle Eastern History, Ancient History
- Geographical Location: China, Kazakhstan, Central Asia, Afghanistan, South Asia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan
- Date: c. 4000
Article abstract: People in Turkistan domesticated the horse, which became a valuable source of labor and transport in Central Asia and much of Europe and later played a crucial role in the military forces of the Greeks and Romans.
Summary of Event
Strangely enough, the horse was among the last important animals to be tamed. Although it is not possible to pinpoint when horses were first domesticated, a reasonably close estimate can be made. As long ago as the Solutrean period of the Old Stone Age, perhaps nearly twenty thousand years ago, European wild...
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