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Horses are first domesticated in Eastern Europe. This was in 4,000 B.C.
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People began to tame horses
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First use of war chariots in Mesopotamia.
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Horses were used in the army on mongolia
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Domesticated horses introduced in Mesopotamia.
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The world's first manual on training horses is written by the Mitanni horse trainer Kikkuli (found in Hattusa).
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China and Egypt use horses to fight
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The tethrippon (four-horse chariot race) is added to the schedule of the Olympic Games.
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Theodoric Strabo dies when his horse throws him onto a spear.
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The early ancestors of the horse lived in North America and crossed to Europe on the Bering Straight. This was in 48000B.C.
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Spainish horses became the fastest and beast horses in Europe and when Columbus landed in the West Indies (thinking that he was in China) he unloaded the horses he'd brought with him. This was a sort of homecoming for the horses because North America was were their ancestors were from.
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Cortés uses horses to conquer Aztecs in Mexico
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Pizarro uses horse to conquer Peru
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Wild horses now roam Mexico. Extra info: Before horses: Indians used bolas to hunt, "long ropes with heavy rocks tied to each end. A hunter swung a bola over his head until it was spinning, then released it in full swing. Striking the animal, the bola wrapped around its legs and prevented it from running away." After horse: Indians use horses and the Spainish lazo (lasso along) with bolas. Horses changed the lifestyles of those Indians who began using them.
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After Civil war cattle ranching spreads across the Great Plains to Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Missouri. Railroads helped to transport cattle
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Soon new inventions like the windmill, and barbed wire fence, made horses less nessasary, and eventually unnecessary.
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The BLM began the adopt-a-horse-or-burro programs
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Earliest remains found from the Paleocene epoch (about 54 million years ago in North America) More recent fossils found from the Eocene epoch
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-Asian nomads first domesticated horses nearly 5000 yrs. ago
-Horses have played a central role in shapng human life.
-3000yrs ago, jthe horse had become a fixture of many ancient civilizations.
-Horses were used primarily for food, riding, or to pull carts
-Horses quick feet impressed the Persians.
-1800s the US. Pony Express borrowed the same method.
-American Horse Council estimates direct impact on the economy in the US over 39 billion.
-Changed the practices of Farming and industry.