Chinese Inventions | The Horse Harness | For School, A Research Paper
Posted January 16th, 2012 by SeptemberLove
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January 16th, 2012
The horse bridle started with the Chinese, who were the beginning of using the horse for other things. Some cultures even ate horses before realizing their real value! Ancient people definitely needed the horse harness and bridle for transportation. In Rome throat-and-girth harnesses were used on horses which wrapped around their necks and choked them. The Chinese made improvements it, to put the force of the load on the horse’s chest bones in 300 and 400 BC. This gave the horses the ability to carry loads six times greater than that in Rome. The Chinese were also the first serious inventors of the piece of the bridle horses bite onto, the bit. Xenophon was the first to publish any writings on horsemanship in 350 BC, and showed compassion towards his horses in trying to treat them right. “You must refrain from pulling on the bit,” said Xenophon. He eventually designed a bit system that included two bits to be used at once for the horse’s and rider’s ease.
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AN: I'm posting this to help out the people of KidPub! Well, if they ever have an assignment anything like this. My Social studies' teacher is super specific, so you can't find like anything on the topic. D:
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