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A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses [note 1] to provide rapid motive power.
1. : a light four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage. 2. : a two-wheeled horse-drawn battle car of ancient times used also in processions and races. chariot. 2 of 2. verb. charioted; charioting; chariots. intransitive verb. : to drive or ride in or as if in a chariot. transitive verb. : to carry in or as if in a chariot.
Mar 6, 2013 · The chariot was the supreme military weapon in Eurasia roughly from 1700 BCE to 500 BCE but was also used for hunting purposes and in sporting contests such as the Olympic Games and in the Roman Circus Maximus.
Oct 22, 2023 · Chariots are probably the most famous and romanticized pieces of technology from the Ancient World. While primarily used as weapons of war, they were also used as a mode of transportation, a form of entertainment, and as religiously or ritualistically significant objects.
Chariot, open, two- or four-wheeled vehicle of antiquity, probably first used in royal funeral processions and later employed in warfare, racing, and hunting. The chariot apparently originated in Mesopotamia in about 3000 bc; monuments from Ur and Tutub depict battle parades that include heavy.
Jul 13, 2017 · The chariot was used in Chinese warfare from around 1250 BCE but enjoyed its heyday between the 8th and 5th century BCE when various states were constantly battling for control of China. Employed as a status symbol, a shock weapon, to pursue the enemy, or as transport for archers and commanders, it was used effectively in many battles of the ...
While records almost invariably credit victorious owners and their horses for winning, their drivers are often not mentioned at all. In the ancient Olympic Games, and other Panhellenic Games, chariot racing was one of the most important equestrian events, and could be watched by unmarried women.
Chariots typically carried up to three armed warriors pulled by 2-4 horses. Usually there would be at least one driver responsible for holding the reins and the others engaged in fighting and commandeering.
Two wheeled war chariots carrying an archer and a driver, combined with the use of the composite bow, fully revamped military tactics around 1700 B.C. Chariots spread to Greece, Asia Minor, Iran, India and China. Chariot use in war declined slowly, beginning around 1000 B.C.
Tactics - Chariot Warfare, Ancient Armies, Cavalry: Invented in the 3rd millennium bc, the first chariots seem to have been too slow and cumbersome to serve in combat, but about 2000 bc the light, horse-drawn, two-wheeled vehicles destined to revolutionize tactics appeared in the Western Steppe and Mesopotamia, Syria, and Turkey, from which ...
