NATS 1840 Lecture 15: Lecture 15 - Summary
9 Nov 2017
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Nats 1840 lecture 15 horses as transportation techologies. Horses: produ(cid:272)e po(cid:449)er, (cid:373)o(cid:448)e people a(cid:374)d goods, (cid:449)arfare, (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s of (cid:455)ears. Horses have evolved over 50 million years from the eohippus: Domesticated by 4000bc: transportation, trade and warfare, mesopotamian war chariots, egyptian and the roman military use of horses. Fighting purposes since the very beginning of their use. 400,000 kilometres (250,000 miles) of roman roads, military and commerce commerce- pulled good back and forth. Europeans adoption of the horse and the horse collar (from the chinese), agriculture, breeding of horses, increase in food production and population. Chinese developed the horse collar, europeans picked it up, allowed them to grow more=pop went up. Central mode of transportation for thousands of years. Once we got the horse we started using it for many things. The chinese stirrup led to cavalry, and the mounted knight, who ruled the battlefield for many years until gunpowder appeared.
