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55 million years ago the Hyracotherium lived in North America. The Hyracotherium lived in the tropical rain forests, they where leaf-eating mammal around the size of a dog. This distinct ancestor of the horse is part of the rise in mammal and distinction of the dinosaurs.

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Early horses crossed over the land bridge from the America to Asia then spread into Europe. Horses vanished in the Americas 10,000 years ago, this could have happened because of climate change or people from Asia came and started hunting the horses before they where used for transportation

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Paintings in France from about 17,000 years ago where found in a cave in Lascaux, France that are. The later humans then named constellations after the paintings

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The first known evidence of domesticated horses is that horse poop was found inside a post holes dating back to 5000 B.C.E. in present day Kazakhstan. Ancient knife markings where found in thousands of horse bones which shows that they where domesticated and used for meant and maybe even milk

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4,000 year old drawings show horses pulling chariots, the earliest evidence of people using horses as transportation

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Fossils 5,000 years old of worn-down horse teeth indicate that a riding bit was put in the horse´s mouth. People could have rode horses without bits before but no physical evidence remains

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Horses & the Persian Empire’s Royal Road

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Horses & the Persian Empire’s Royal Road

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People who road horses would only take 7 days to travel 1,700 miles compared to the previous 90 days by walk the 1,700 miles

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The Chinese inventions of the saddle and stirrup first appeared in China 2,000 years ago, This made horse-mounted warfare very effective

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Asian warriors used the advantage of having horse to ride and the stirrup and saddle to quickly conquer Asia

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Once the ideas spread to the Europeans, they put tons of armor on and where like tanks

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Spanish RE-introduction to the New World

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Spanish RE-introduction to the New World

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Spanish conquistadors on their first expedition to the Americas brought horses. Some horses got free and bred wildly

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Native Americans quickly realized how useful horses could be. The Indians became experts on horseback riding, young children who couldn't talk yet where comfortable riding a small horse of their own.

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Today their are 300 breeds of horses humans have crossbred horses to fit lots of needs

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Over time new inventions make horse less needed for transport  places but they are still important

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The Little Big History of The Horse by Georgia McDougall

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Horses are less needed for communication because of new inventions

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Based on the past of horses having a big impact on people, maybe they will have a more complex and important relationship with humans.