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The remarkable thing here is that the technology transfer was not by contact and osmosis over the centuries, but literal and intentional transit. We now know t
by hannasanarion 5y ago
The remarkable thing here is that the technology transfer was not by contact and osmosis over the centuries, but literal and intentional transit.
We now know that there were two people, a shock troop and a horseman, who served in the same Assyrian imperial army at or around the same time. Then after they retired from the army, one stayed in the region, and the other moved to China.
- sillyquiet 5y agoWell the horses at least were quite intentionally traded, and I would be very surprised if chariots were not either, although admittedly, they spread mostly by some poor saps being pounded to dust by the folks in chariots and then those poor saps adopting chariots themselves (e.g., the Egyptians and the Hyksos)