The horse bit and bridle kicked off ancient empires – a new giant dataset tracks the societal factors that drove military technology
- Written by: Peter Turchin, Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Connecticut
Ancient military innovations – like the bit and bridle that enabled mounted horseback riding – changed the course of history.Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin/British Museum via WikimediaCommons , CC BY-NCStarting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the next millennium the...
