ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Barb Horse, Dogs In Warfare, Wild Horse

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Animal & Comp Biomed Sciences
• Course: ACBS 160D1
• Professor: H.Steklis, N.Steklis

Document Summary

Mongols had a history of supporting merchants and trade silk road. Alexander the great and xenophon greek horse trainer and general. How the horse became extinct in n. america, migrated to eurasia. Hunting by humans and climate change contributed to megafaunal extinction including the extinction of n. american wild horse. Late 1400s to early 1500s (spanish conquistadors in the nw) Spanish-sponsored, columbus brought horses to the new world (hispaniola, haiti) but not to the americas. Why did columbus sail west - trade blocked persians, arabs, mediterranean blocked out, sailed west by accident. The war harde(cid:374)ed (cid:862)extre(cid:373)adura(cid:863) conquistador, cortes and his spanish horses. 1509 cortes sailed from cuba to mexico (11 ships, 450 men, war dogs, 16 horses) Challenge of shipping horses many died en route. Powerful, war trained horse andalusian barb horse trained in lipizza. Cortes followed by fellow spaniard pizzaro in 1531. Went south into inca territory to loot gold and silver.