At the beginning of the 6th century BC the second class of citizens in Athens, the Hippeis (meaning “Knights”), were required to own horses and to serve in the cavalry. The cavalry´s role remained fundamental to Greek military tactics until the end of antiquity. Did the ancient Greeks have horses? Read more…
Comanche is not a great horse, physically talking; he is of medium size, neatly put up, but quite noble looking. He is very gentle. His color is ‘claybank‘ He would make a handsome carriage horse… What color was George Custer’s horse? George Armstrong Custer took his personal horses on the Read more…
The Comanche were one of the first tribes to acquire the horse from the Spanish, through trade and raiding. They considered the horse a relative and a great gift from the Creator. Today the image of Indians on horseback is iconic. Why were horses so important to the Comanche empire? Read more…
First and foremost, their adoption of horses in the early eighteenth century allowed the Comanches to build a lifestyle based on bison hunting; horses thus helped the Comanche transform boundless fields of grass into the caloric fuel (bison meat) needed for their rapid population growth. What role did horse play Read more…
The horse, the sacred animal of the Kassites, probably first came into use in Babylonia at this time. Did the Sumerians have horses? Horses are known to Sumerians: they call them “donkey of the mountain” (anše. kur. ra). But horses are from Anatolia and Iran, where they were first domesticated Read more…
The genus Equus, which includes all extant equines, was plentiful in North America and spread into the Old World by about 2.5 mya. Are horses Native to the Old World? It was previously believed that Equus, the genus that includes modern horses, evolved in North America around 3.5 million years Read more…
Jesus then rode the donkey into Jerusalem, with the three synoptic gospels stating that the disciples had first put their cloaks on it. Matthew 21:7 maintains that the disciples laid their cloaks on both the donkey and its colt. What was Jesus riding when he entered Jerusalem? He makes a Read more…
Kazakhstan. Horses, the scientists conclude, were first domesticated 6000 years ago in the western part of the Eurasian Steppe, modern-day Ukraine and West Kazakhstan. What was the first horse to be tamed? Discoveries in the context of the Botai culture had suggested that Botai settlements in the Akmola Province of Read more…
While most Romans are believed to have traveled on foot, wealthy Romans and merchants used horses for transport as did the government and the military. Horses were used to pull wagons for the merchants who owned them. Did Romans use horse? Horses were vital to daily Roman life, as a Read more…
These horses burned a lot of calories, and yet the primary feeds for these horses working 8-10 hours a day was hay and chaff (a mixture of hay and chopped straw). What were horses used for in the 1700s? While horses were likely used for work, such as to plow Read more…