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HORSE RIDING
Egyptians and Hittites were great empire-builders of the time. A cuneiform written around 1,345BCE, describes how a Hittite horseman named Kikkuli selected, trained and conditioned horses for war. His writing showed how he selected horses without breathing disorders. He even developed nutrition plans with careful measurements of oats, barley, hay, chaff, and salt. It was clear that Kikkuli understood the horse's physiology and psychology. -
Horse Riding
The first true horse was pony-sized and was hunted for its meat by Cro-Magnon humans. Fast moving and agile this early horse was one of the more attractive and gentle-natured creatures of its time. That may be why the horse eventually became so much more than just a food source. -
Horse Riding
During the Neolithic period in Eurasia, in about 4,000BCE, earlier humans moved from life as hunter-gathers to farming, raising and domesticating herds of animals for meat. People of that time were known to have tamed various animals and even kept them as pets. Taming horses probably made them easier to handle as food animals, but there docile nature helped there role with humans evolve, and it was soon discovered that these animals were useful for work.
