EUREKA, NV - JULY 8: A group of wild horses is rounded up during a gathering July 8, 2005 in Eureka, Nevada. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management wants to reduce herds in the American west, where an estimated 37,000 of the horses roam free, to 28,000 by the end of 2005. The U.S.
Without us, horses would be nowhere, and vice-versa. It was a partnership that truly changed the world. Historian Timothy Winegard, author of The Horse, tells Nahlah Ayed how the history of the horse is the history of humankind.CBC RadioWithout us horses would be nowhere, and vice-versa. The partnership became an ancient win-win, according to historian Timothy Winegard, author of The Horse: A Galloping History of Humanity.
I wonder how much recognition there is in the West of horses as a tool of war, that brought the world that we live in today?, it's very sombre and it's engraved. The they had no choice, whether that's pigeons or horses or dogs or camels, elephants — all the animals that we've used in warfare. We have to remember that horses were conscripted into our human warfare, whether the cause was noble or nefarious.
In 1939 when they invade Poland only 15 per cent of the German military is mechanized — 85 per cent run on horsepower. By 1944 that number is only 10 per cent mechanized. These are in all the movie reels. We still watch documentaries on the Second World War seeing Goebbels' original propaganda, promoting this myth of a German mechanized juggernaut. When in fact, they were 15 per cent mechanized at best during any time of the war.
Part of the book is to look at history through a different lens and appreciate just how impactful these magnificent animals were in shaping our modern world order.I bet people don't know when they get their DTaP vaccines that the horse made the original vaccines for both diphtheria and tetanus. Horses produced a serum that was used for the original vaccines for these horrific diseases that killed hundreds of millions of people.
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