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Doctor_Impossible_ t1_jbf0fgf wrote

Reply to comment by Sniffy4 in Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests by Magister_Xehanort

> because if you look at the horses pulling chariots in paintings from the battle of Kadesh about 3500 years ago, they are clearly much smaller than modern horses

Cool of them to ensure everything was depicted to scale.

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Sniffy4 t1_jbfbi97 wrote

if the horses were large enough to ride, chariots would be a pointless waste in battle, which in fact they were by Roman times.

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