S1 • E2 Sep 25, 1985
Some four thousand years ago, when somewhere on the edge of the great sea of grass that fills the plain of Central Asia, man first tamed the horse and broke it to his will. It was the beginning of a relationship that would transform warfare, and so trade, agriculture and politics. Horsemen were the masters of the battlefield over much of the world from 1000 B.C. until the end of the Middle Ages.
