Animals That Made History
The Conquest of America - The Horse
S1 • E3 Feb 3, 2010 45m
The horse originally came from America and from there it began its triumphal march into the world - to Asia, Europe and Africa. But in America of all places it died out at the end of the Ice Age. Not until 1519 did sixteen horses return there: in the belly of the ship of Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conqueror.