Man's development over the last several thousand years has, to a large extent, depended on the use and exploitation of the horse. Our ancestors hunted horses and then in the steppes of Asia started to ride them. The earliest horse cultures were nomads with herds of livestock - for them horsepower changed everything. The course will start with the evolution of the horse and then goes on to consider various aspects of the way in which the horse has assisted man such as in war and conquest, economically in agriculture and industry and even in the development of new nations such as the United States. No previous knowledge of the horse is assumed.
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