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Originally Posted by sesame
As the Persians, Indo Iranians & Indo Aryans have mounted horses or used chariots in war at around 860BC, its a simple equation that they were the inventors. They were the first in known history to do it. 
If others have invented it before that, they must have used their horses to squeeze oil from mustard seeds in some prehistoric oil-mill!  |
They were the first to record that they used horses and chariots in war. That doesn't necessarily make them the first to use horses. I will grant you that they were more than likely the first ones to use chariots in war. But just because they were the first to record that they used horses in war doesn't necessarily mean they were the first. The tribes of the Asian steppes were illiterate and therefore there were no written records of their achievments and inventions. It is still quite possible that they were the first to use horses in war. One must remember that the tribes of the Asian steppes include Mongolians, Turks, and Huns. They were all quite accomplished riders when they invaded the middle east and Europe.