Dawn of the Horse Warriors
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Dawn of the Horse Warriors

Chariot and Cavalry Warfare, 3000-600BC

  1. 240 pages
  2. English
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Dawn of the Horse Warriors

Chariot and Cavalry Warfare, 3000-600BC

About this book

The domestication of the horse revolutionized warfare, granting unprecedented strategic and tactical mobility, allowing armies to strike with terrifying speed. The horse was first used as the motive force for chariots and then, in a second revolution, as mounts for the first true cavalry.
The period covered encompasses the development of the first clumsy ass-drawn chariots in Sumer (of which the author built and tested a working replica for the BBC); takes in the golden age of chariot warfare resulting from the arrival of the domesticated horse and the spoked wheel, then continues down through the development of the first regular cavalry force by the Assyrians and on to their eventual overthrow by an alliance of Medes and the Scythians, wild semi-nomadic horsemen from the Eurasian steppe. As well as narrating the rise of the mounted arm through campaigns and battles, Duncan Noble draws on all his vast experience as a horseman and experimental archaeologist to discuss with great authority the development of horsemanship, horse management and training and the significant developments in horse harness and saddles.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Maps
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 The Domestication of the Horse
  11. Chapter 2 Central Asia
  12. Chapter 3 Wheeled Transport before the Sumerians
  13. Chapter 4 Sumer
  14. Chapter 5 Mesopotamia Between the Sumerians and the Assyrians
  15. Chapter 6 The Early Assyrian Empire
  16. Chapter 7 The Later Assyrian Empire
  17. Chapter 8 Elam
  18. Chapter 9 Egypt
  19. Chapter 10 Palestine, Syria, and Cyprus
  20. Chapter 11 Anatolia
  21. Chapter 12 Europe: The Mycenaeans
  22. Chapter 13 China
  23. Chapter 14 The Indian Sub-continent
  24. Conclusions
  25. Chronological Table
  26. Appendix A: The Wheels of War
  27. Appendix B: Who Was Who
  28. Bibliography
  29. Plate section