[blam]

War Of The Heavenly Horses

"Blood-sweating" Horse Sparks Chinese Equestrian Interest

Pants were not invented until people began horse back riding:

These Are the World's Oldest Pants

"Jeans may have been invented in 1873, but these trousers beat that date by a long shot. A pair of wool pants was recently discovered in a graveyard in western China’s Tarim Basin dating back to around 3,300 years ago. They’re the oldest pants archaeologists have ever found—though they look like they might fit in quite well at Anthropology."

[seowulf]

Pants were not invented until people began horse back riding

Well, I for one would not want to ride a horse wearing a kilt; especially as a "true Scotsman".

[SunkenCiv]

The Han considered an alliance with the Romans to get the intervening adversaries into a vice. Instead, a plague hit the entire ancient world, leading to (well documented by court records) devastation of the Han armies as well as the (also documented) Roman armies, and luckily for Rome, the Parthians and luckily for both, the wild lawless hordes of the steppe.