[lentulusgracchus]

The Assyrians used mounted archers, too -- as did the Persians and Parthians later.

The term is "Parthian shot", ictus Parthicus in Latin. "Parting shot" is a corruption of the correct term.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #13

From Central Asia to Mongol Steppe to Manchuria, all steppe people used the more or less the same art of war, and culturally similar, even though some could have been ethnically quite different.

Techniques of mounted warriors took a significant leap in N.E. Asia.