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WI the horse was not a tameable creature ie it's wild nature would absolutely not allow it to be broken in sufficiently to allow it to be harnessed for ploughing (horses for ploughing were mainly used by the Anglos in the UK & N.America; the rest of the world used oxen) or to carry a human on its back, like an untameable wild mustang? (It was the conquistadores that brought the horse to the Americas).
Without horses for cavalry, the history of warfare, from Ancient Egypt to the Russian cavalry of WW2, would have been totally different. Much more use would have been made of camels, donkeys & elephants, but no substitute for the horse. What other major differences from OTL if horses were only good for food (horse meat has the flavour of a tasty but tough steak, & is not too appetising)? Would the horse by now be extinct even? Would it have spurred an earlier development of steam transport?
Without horses for cavalry, the history of warfare, from Ancient Egypt to the Russian cavalry of WW2, would have been totally different. Much more use would have been made of camels, donkeys & elephants, but no substitute for the horse. What other major differences from OTL if horses were only good for food (horse meat has the flavour of a tasty but tough steak, & is not too appetising)? Would the horse by now be extinct even? Would it have spurred an earlier development of steam transport?
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