tour 4 of 6
Animals
Chinese horse
It was probably in China that people first
started riding horses, around 6000 years ago. Horses were so much
faster than walking, riding them completely changed
people's lives. They could now visit far away places that
they had never seen
before.
To start with
people rode bareback, but after a while started using saddles to
sit on. Can you see the saddle-blanket and saddle on this
horse?
The little green
horse on the left was made in ancient Greece to leave as a present
to the gods. Horses were important then too.