Domestication and Early Use of Horses

Question 1

When were the first horses used?

Answer 1

50,000 years ago

Question 2

What were horses first used for?

Answer 2

Crow - Magnon hunters would :

Herd horses over cliffs and butcher for meat, bone, and hide

Question 3

Horses were first domesticated

Answer 3

4000 BC on the western Persian Desert (for meat and milk)

Question 4

What was used before the horse?

Answer 4

Ass and Ox

Question 5

When were horses first used for labor?

Answer 5

2000 BC in Mesopotamia

Question 6

How were horses first controlled?

Answer 6

Nose ring

Effective for control ox and onager by same method

Question 7

Why did the horse replace the ox and onager

Answer 7

Speed

Question 8

Who invented the snaffle bit

Answer 8

Romans 1500 BC
(1st time reins used on each side of the neck)
(no stirrups and saddles)

Question 9

Who developed the curb bit?

Answer 9

Romans

Question 10

When were the 1st recorded geldings

Answer 10

800 BC

Question 11

What clothing item was invented in this time due to horses

Answer 11

Trousers

Question 12

What happened when chariotry declined in 700BC

Answer 12

~Riding skills improved
~Mounted patrols increased
~Horsemanship was developed and studied

Question 13

What animals were depended upon by Arabs

Answer 13

Camels

Question 14

Why were camels not being used anymore

Answer 14

Speed

Size