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How horses changed history 10 - Coggle Diagram
How horses changed history 
The origin
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Sometime after 4 million years ago, ancient equid species began trotting
They spread through Eurasia and into Africa, diversifying into the lineages that would lead to modern-day horses, donkeys, and zebras.
Around 2,000 BCE, people on the western Eurasian steppe domesticated horses
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Horses in the past
Between the 4th and 8th centuries CE, steppe horsemen spread riding technologies like stirrups across cultures
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The Mongol Empire rose to power in the 13th century, and raided, traded, and toppled empires over previously unthinkable distances.
Horses continued to spread, eventually spurring equestrian empires reaching the south of the Sahara by the mid-14th century
By 1500, horses were finally reintroduced to the Americas
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