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To: skinowski who wrote (770456)10/29/2022 3:32:05 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 793846
 
It would seem, at first brush, that it is easier to simply ride a horse than to engineer a light and durable chariot, but in fact ancient civilizations almost universally found chariots easier to manage.
Another reason is that horses still had not been selectively bred to the size that they would have in the future. That would preclude having heavy cavalry with armored horses and well armored men. (There is also the issue of not having stirrups but they are not absolutely necessary, heavy cavalry existed before the stirrup.). You still would have been able to have light cavalry but I guess the elite of the time, who could afford to have horses, didn't want that type of job.
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