Timeline for Could Bronze-Age Nomads Effectively Utilize Chariots for Warfare?
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 17:08 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 14:42 | comment | added | puppetsock | Heh heh. Google for "chariots of iron." | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 12:01 | comment | added | AlexP | The Aryan invaders of India and Iran are traditionally (for example, in the Rig Veda) described as using horse-drawn chariots. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:33 | answer | added | AlexP | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 10:07 | comment | added | Li Jun | and also as mobile infantry which can be effective or helpful for the heavy infantry but it require more resource, i know some horse nomad do use wagon like big yurt wagon but the timber usually is gain from trade rather than from the steppe itself and i doubt steppe has enough resource for entire unit and as quarague say theres also problem with maintenance. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:56 | answer | added | quarague | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:46 | comment | added | Li Jun | in that case in my opinion seems unlikely to be effective besides it require a lot of resource not just the horse, the only advantage of chariot is you can use wagon fort or mobile fortress as tactical formation, but i dont know how it fare against infantry and range infantry alike. | |
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| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:43 | comment | added | user71781 | @Li Jun Both the nomads and the enemy have chariot technology | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:42 | comment | added | user71781 | @Li Jun Yes, no one is able to have horses since they haven’t been selectively bred long enough for the size required to support a rider, and it’s about the feasibility of nomadic people using chariots at such a time | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:41 | comment | added | Li Jun | also are the nomads the only one that has chariot technology or the enemy also has it ? | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:38 | comment | added | Li Jun | besides chariot has a lot of weakness like kill the rider or controller, or destroy the wheel, or kill one or some of the horse in the chariot and it will drag down unless you add more horse, and also harder to maneuver. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:33 | comment | added | Li Jun | so from what i get you mean all the civilization cant ride horse and you want to know the feasibility or effectiveness for full chariot nomads ? i wonder the resource though. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:13 | comment | added | user71781 | @Klaus Æ. Mogensen This is true, but there was a time in which men simply did not ride horses, as they were still too small to be ridden effectively. This is why they had chariots. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 9:06 | comment | added | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | I'd like to point out that horseback riding was common long before the stirrup made fighting from horseback easy. According to Wikipedia, there was Assyrian cavalry around 700 BCE, two centuries earlier than the earliest evidence of even simple rope foot supports for riders. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirrup | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 7:39 | history | asked | user71781 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
