https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re en-us 2017-05-05 14:39:59 UTC 2017-05-10 14:32:31 UTC hello@padlet.com reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170196722 2017-05-05 14:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170196722 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170524977 Humans and horses have had a relationship for thousands of years. Today, the horse continues to be used for transportation and farming in some regions. Telegraphs and railroads replaced the Pony Express, which once carried letters across the American West.]]> 2017-05-08 14:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170524977 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170526433 More than 300 breeds exist today. Elephants in India and Thailand, camels in North Africa and parts of Asia. But the horse proved to be able to carry far heavier loads than a dog could. ]]> 2017-05-08 14:41:36 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170526433 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170526875 The Mongols used lightning-fast raids to conquer much of Asia in the thirteenth century. When the stirrup arrived in Europe, it allowed European warriors to ride while armored with metal plates made by medieval blacksmiths. With a saddle and stirrups, warriors could use their hands to throw spears, slash with swords, or fire arrows. ]]> 2017-05-08 14:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170526875 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170527228 ¨Horse-mounted messengers on the Persian Empire’s Royal Road in the fifth century BCE could carry a message 1,700 miles in seven days. It took 90 days by foot.¨ Horse-centered cultures emerged in places like the steppes of Central Asia. Horses and riders or chariots could cover huge distances at great speed. ]]> 2017-05-08 14:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170527228 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170527597  4,000 years ago,  Middle East show horses pulling chariots.The earliest evidence of humans riding horses is 5,000-year-old fossils of worn-down horse teeth.  ]]> 2017-05-08 14:45:55 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170527597 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170528805 Vanished from the Americas about 10,000 years ago. These early horses crossed over the Bering Land Bridge from the Americas to Asia.Their disappearance could have been caused by the changing climate at the end of the last ice age. ]]> 2017-05-08 14:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170528805 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170529188 The history of the horse goes back some 55 million years. Tropical rain forests of North America. There was a leaf-eating mammal about the size of a dog called Hyracotherium.]]> 2017-05-08 14:51:27 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170529188 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170530318 Horse-mounted messengers on the Persian Empire’s Royal Road in the fifth century BCE could carry a message 1,700 miles in seven days. It took 90 days by foot. Horse-centered cultures emerged in places like the steppes of Central Asia. Humans now had the ability to ride the horse, and to domesticate it for food. ]]> 2017-05-08 14:55:04 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170530318 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170531793 ¨Domesticated Spanish horses made their way back to the “New World” in 1493 upon Columbus’s return to Fort La Navidad.¨ ¨Despite the difficulties of transporting livestock across the Atlantic, future fleets would bring more horses, and the body of water leading up to the Canary Islands became known as Golfo de Yeguas.¨ ¨ The transport of horses by the Spanish is part of a larger process that included the transport of other European domestic animals including goats, pigs and cows, each of which would go on to influence European colonization and ultimately native peoples in their own ways.¨
Source-  http://www.edwardrjenkins.com/papers/reintroduction-horse-north-america-effect-native-peoples/]]> 2017-05-08 14:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170531793 reichjes000 https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170534863 Today, the horse continues to be used for transportation and farming in some regions. Electronic communication and new forms of transportation made the horse obsolete for carrying messages.  Advances in communication continued with the radio, telephones, television, and the Internet.]]> 2017-05-08 15:09:13 UTC https://padlet.com/reichjes000/8w7c6h3t71re/wish/170534863