A horse culture is a tribe or community whose day-to-day life revolves around the herding and breeding of . Beginning with the domestication of the horse on the steppes of Eurasia, the horse transformed each society that adopted its use. Notable examples are the Mongols of Mongolia, the Scythian and Turkic peoples nomads of Central Asia, the Plains Indians, the Guaycuru peoples of the Gran Chaco, and the Mapuche and Tehuelche people of Patagonia
History
History offers many examples of horse cultures, such as the
Huns and
Eurasian nomads. Horse cultures tend to place a great deal of importance on horses and by their very nature are
and usually
hunter-gatherer or nomadic pastoralist societies. For example, the arrival of the horse in the Americas altered the cultures of the Native Americans in the Great Plains, the Gran Chaco and Patagonia. The horse increased mobility; the ability of the horse to cover a lot of ground in a very short period of time allowed native people to easily move from place to place, bringing on a nomadic shift in their culture, with an impact on transportation, trade, hunting and warfare.
However, there were also disadvantages to adopting horse culture, such as the increased responsibility of caring for the horses and keeping them healthy. of the community also had to shift to accommodate the physical space for horses to graze and feed easily.
Horse Racing
A common form of entertainment in many Native American horse cultures was horse racing. A typical race would have anywhere between two and six young men on horseback raced for about three to six kilometers.
Much like with modern horse racing, gambling was often involved and viewers of the race would place bets on which horse-rider pair they thought would win. These bets often included robes, blankets, and sometimes guns.
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