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Though there is controversy over the exact date horses were domesticated and when they were first ridden; the best estimate is that horses first were ridden approximately 4500 BC. Indirect evidence suggests that horses were ridden long before they were driven. There is some evidence that about 6,000 years ago, near the Dneiper River and the Don River, people were using bits on horses, as a stallion that was buried there shows teeth wear consistent with using a bit. However, the most unequivocal early archaeological evidence of equines put to working use was of horses being driven. Chariot burials about 2500 BC present the most direct hard evidence of horses used as working animals. In ancient times chariot warfare was followed by the use of war horses as light and heavy cavalry. The horse played an important role throughout human history all over the world, both in warfare and in peaceful pursuits such as transportation, trade and agriculture. Horses lived in North America, but died out at the end of the Ice Age. Horses were brought back to North America by European explorers, beginning with the second voyage of Columbus in 1493.

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The earliest evidence that horse were made to wear bits (a requirement for either riding or using them as draft animals) comes from a site in Kazakhstan which dates to 3500 BCE. If alternate methods of controlling the animals so that a bit was not placed in the mouth were used, the date of such use could be even earlier.

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the egyptains when the pharaoah Khufu ruled and built the Great Pyramid of Giza

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Many centuries.

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