Transport & space · c. 2,000 BCE

Chariot

A light two-wheeled car behind horses becomes the fastest vehicle of the Bronze Age.

Horse-drawn chariots with spoked wheels emerged on the steppe around 2000 BCE and spread to Egypt, Anatolia, India and China within centuries. They were the elite war and prestige vehicle of the Bronze Age; the Battle of Kadesh in 1274 BCE may have involved about 5,000 of them.

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