The horse in human history /
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Call Number: SF283 .K437 2009
Table of Contents:
- ntroduction to equestrian man and to Equus
- Equus caballus: horse domestication and agro-pastoralism across the Eurasian steppes
- Nomadic horse culture of the steppes
- Expansion from the steppes to Southwestern and Southern Asia
- China and the steppes beyond its borders
- Equestrian Europe
- solar edifices, hippodromes, and Arthurian chivalry
- Arabian conquest from the South
- Turkic-invader converts to Islam and crusader opponents
- From the steppes, the Altaic Nomad conquest of Eurasia
- From Europe, Equus returns to its continent of origin
- Horses are us.