History Of The Horse

Question 1

Kingdom

Answer 1

Animalia

Question 2

Phylum

Answer 2

Chordata

Question 3

Subphylum

Answer 3

Vertebrata

Question 4

Class

Answer 4

Mammalia

Question 5

Order

Answer 5

Perissodactyla

Question 6

Family

Answer 6

Equidae

Question 7

Genus

Answer 7

Equus

Question 8

Species

Answer 8

Caballus (horse) assinus (ass)

Question 9

What are the 3 families in the order Perissodactyla?

Answer 9

Equidae
Tapiridae
Rhinocerotidae

Question 10

what are the last 5 groups in the Equus genus?

Answer 10

asinus
burchelli
prezewalski
hemionus

Question 11

How did we grow into todays agriculture?

Answer 11

hunter- gatherers
farmers
agriculture

People stopped being as nomadic and started to settle in to more permanent homes and began to domesticate and raise plants and animals.

Question 12

When plants and animals became domesticated, what did people have to learn about?

Answer 12

Reproduction patterns, disease, nutrition, genetics, meat science, and more.

Question 13

What happened between 4000-3000 B.C.

Answer 13

horse domestication began on the Steppes North of the Black Sea

Question 14

What happened in the Mesopotamian era (between 2 and 4 k B.C.?

Answer 14

Oxen were yoked and asses and Onagers were harnessed

Question 15

Domesttication

Answer 15

The point at which the care, feeding, and breeding of a species come under the control of people. It occurs when humans, as opposed to natural sources, become the primary selection agents in the evolution of a species. To adapt the behavior of animals to fit the needs of the people.

Question 16

What does perisso in perissodactyla mean?

Answer 16

strange or odd

Question 17

what does dactyla in perissodactyla mean?

Answer 17

Toe

Question 18

what does perissodactyla mean?

Answer 18

an order of mammals that comprises the odd-toed ungulates

Question 19

How old is the earth?

Answer 19

4.5 billion years old

Question 20

when was the earliest ancestor of today’s horse present?

Answer 20

50 million years ago in the Eocene Epoch

Question 21

what was the earliest ancestor called from the Eocene Epoch?

Answer 21

Eohippus (Hyracotherium)

Question 22

what was the Eohippus also known as?

Answer 22

dawn horse

Question 23

describe the Eohippus

Answer 23

50lbs, 4 front toes, 3 hind toes, 44 low low-crowned teeth, browser eats leaves off the trees

Question 24

what horse came after the Eohippus?

Answer 24

Mesohippus about 35 million years ago in Oligocene Epoch

Question 25

describe the Mesohippus

Answer 25

larger than Eohippus, 3 front toes, 3 hind toes, teeth more evolved

Question 26

what horse came after Mesohippus?

Answer 26

Merychippus about 20 million years ago in the Miocene Epoch

Question 27

describe the Merychippus

Answer 27

beginning of grazing horse of today, gregarious, teeth similar to present horses and toes regress

Question 28

what horse came after Merychippus?

Answer 28

Pliohippus about 5 million years ago in the Pliocene Epoch

Question 29

describe the Pliohippus

Answer 29

first true monodactyl, teeth and limbs most similar to present horses

Question 30

what horse came after Pliohippus?

Answer 30

Equus about 1 million years ago in the Pleistocene Epoch

Question 31

describe the Equus

Answer 31

horse of today, true grazers

Question 32

where were descendants of Eohippus distributed throughout?

Answer 32

Europe and America

Question 33

Horses were extinct in America until who brought 30 of to them new world

Answer 33

Columbus

Question 34

who else brought horses to America in the 16th century which present American horse breeds derive from?

Answer 34

Spanish Conquistadors

Question 35

evolution is not a straight line, but more like a?

Answer 35

branching bush

Question 36

what is the only surviving branch of equus caballas and todays true horse?

Answer 36

Equus