Comments by "" (@benghazi4216) on "How Horses Went From Food To Friends" video.

It took quite a while for the horses to actually change everything. You needed war horses, not small ponies. That's why chariots were the game back then, not cavalry. And even for the chariots, it took hundreds of years before you actually saw chariot warfare, and not just the use of them as transport to the battle site. Another fascinating "Egypt is old" fact is Mammoths were walking on this planet when they built the pyramids.
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@MatthewChenault And let's not forget that the Mitanni are swimming in the R1a1 haplogroup which makes their connection to Indo-Europeans rock solid. To be frank, they were Indo-Europeans.
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Why? Look at reindeer. 1 out of a million is used for other things than resources. It's a walking food storage. Of course the first horses were the same. We just cornered them in a valley and there you go, food for the whole winter.
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@marcduquesne2876 They didn't ride out, at least into battle, since the horses found outside the step after the domestication were the same small Przewalski look alikes. But they did genocide their way to other places yes, aided by the horse to move their culture much more effectively than walking. Think of it like the first chariots. It took quite a while until warfare was done from them, and not just a transport to the battle for the most effluent warriors. Heck in Britain they used them in this way all the way to the Roman invasion. The first horses were used in the same way.
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@MatthewChenault I think you need to read up on dogs in general. They have pulled carts and people for ages. They have been used for warmth by the South American. They have been used for winter food. 99% can eat grain without complication. Not to mention their use in battle, as guards etc etc. And they have been so important, that whole cultures have based their most important traditions on the dog. Like the Koryos tradition for example. And the oldest human story that has survived from prehistory is the dog guarding the path to the afterlife. And it's a dog, because it was named "Spot", and spots only appear on dogs. And btw, dogs being useless for other tasks than hunting if not bred for it is a strange argument, since horses are in the same boat. Do you think the first horses looked like the ones we are used to? No, they looked like ponies. Almost useless for war.
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But anyone in the world can just walk into Ikea and buy moose meat, and it's possible you get horse meat instead ^^
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@norarivkis2513 But then you show that horse a factory farm, and he runs into the wilderness in a heartbeat...
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Except the Hindus
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@TransSappho We can see the patriarchal line that die out while the maternal survive in the conquered people. That is not a toppling of leadership. That is patriarchal genocide and slavery of women. Not much different from the later Koryos traditions where boys were thrown out and had to raid, kill and take property to become men of the clan. Toppling of leadership, a more political action, comes much later in human history. And who were the Yamnaya if not a ethnic indo-Europeans? Or do you think of them as proto-indo-Europeans?
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@Eloraurora And I thought domesticating horses, wolfs and the like were the dangerous part. Not so much it seems.
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