“But other people living north of the CAUCASIAN Mountains domesticated horses for transportation about 4,200 years ago”
Yet ANOTHER major achievement, by the White Man.
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06/09/2024 5:36:39 AM PDT
by
BobL
(Yes, it's sarcasm, but use your brain when you vote, not your emotions)
They invented the spoked wheel which is another reason they could travel so fast. Their carts were lighter and could travel much faster. Wheels had already been around but were a solid wooden disks which meant they were so heavy that they could only be pulled by oxen and consequently slow.
Yamnaya were some of the first people to have lactose tolerance into adulthood. It's how they were able to spread so fast, they were able to consume dairy which of course included horses’ milk.
They were at least a head or two heads taller than everyone they met on their way to E Europe and terrified the people there. Also, they arrived on horseback, which was something entirely unseen to that point and was also frightening.
They were semi nomadic and where they built structures ... each ‘long house’ was connected to the next, each had its own well and each dwelling had a forge where bronze weapons and implements were routinely forged. Amazing!
Great information is at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d48bhkOiEuA
and ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzmwCZlobio
His name is Tom Rowsall (sp?) and woke jerks hate him
Horses also evolved in North America; however, they were too small and delicate for domestication. The earliest horses had five-toed feet!
(That is, had there been humans around back then to domesticate them).
It took Spanish ships to introduce horses back to the New World.
"I’ve had bad experiences when milking a cow. I can’t imagine trying to milk a horse!"
I did both as part of my chores when I was a kid. Goats, too, for that matter. When we sold off a foal before the mare had weaned it, I had to milk her as long as she kept filling her udders.
I remember the Lefties laughing about Bush43 trying to milk a horse. I didn't find it all all humorous and was stunned that they were publicly announcing their equine ignorance and no one was calling them on it.
Some anthropologists believe the success of the Mongol Hordes stemmed in part from the fact that they had (what then was) a rare genetic mutation that made them lactose tolerant. So when they went on the warpath, they rode mostly broodmares and their ability to digest the milk produced by their warhorses dramatically lightened their supply trains, which increased the speed of their advances.
Some also believe that the western world's higher levels of lactose tolerance is a reflection of the success of the Mongol invaders. Those who consume dairy tended to live longer, which meant that once introduced into a population, the tolerance gene tended to spread quickly.
In his narrative of the Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar wrote that the barbarians ate cheese and drank milk, but the Asian water buffalo, the milk from which is the key ingredient in "bufala mozzarella" cheese, didn't get to Italy for at least another 3-4 centuries (and maybe as many as 10), which apparently was enough time for lactose tolerance to be widespread among the Italians.
The genetic mutation which gives most Europeans lactose tolerance arose long before the Mongol invasion (which only got as far as Poland and Croatia). It appears to date back about 5,000 years. According to some online articles, milk drinking became common in Europe as much as 9000 years ago--so people were drinking milk even when they were lactose intolerant, because that could have some unpleasant side effects but wasn't fatal. It appears that the lactose intolerant gene is recessive so that would allow the lactose tolerant gene to spread more quickly.
Although the Mongols consume milk, it appears that they lack the lactose tolerant gene.
A lot of people in India drink milk although only a minority have the lactose tolerant gene (the same mutation as found in Europe--the people who brought the Indo-European languages to India came from Eastern Europe). When milk is made into cheese or yogurt the lactose is reduced so it is less of a problem for people who are lactose intolerant.
