Chariot Racing

The point of dressage is to test the behaviour of the horse. Many well trained dressage horses will/can get higher points in shows. Dressage is a very, very hard sport. Both horse and rider must coperate with each other. Look up Anky Van Grunsven in Google or Yahoo.

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As women were not allowed to compete, or even watch the games as they were a male religious celebration (women had their own religious ceremonies) she hired male drivers.

If you mean the Roman people, they responded passionately to chariot racing. It was their national sport and charioteers were some of the highest paid athletes in the ancient world. Inscriptions and even monuments were put up to honor them and even their horses. Riots and fights sometimes broke out between rival factions or fans. There is even a story of a fan throwing himself on the funeral pyre of a charioteer and going to the underworld with his favorite.

Chariots were important in many cultures throughout history. In Greek culture chariots were significant particularly in racing, but were also used for ceremonies and general transportation.

Wooden eggs marked which lap they were on.

A chariot had only one driver. War chariots would have a fighter in the cart with the driver, but there was only one guy who handled the whip and reigns.

Chariot racing was one of the most popular ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine sports. Chariot racing was often dangerous to both driver and horse as they frequently suffered serious injury and even death, but generated strong spectator enthusiasm. In ancient times, Horse racing, the ancient equivalent to Formula One. To find the origins of actual chariot racing we have to turn to Greece and the islands of the Aegean. In the fourteenth to twelfth centuries BC, first the Minoan, and later the Mycenean, culture inhabited what was subsequently seen as the cradle of European civilization. The ongoing excavations and exciting discoveries of the last hundred years are still changing our view of the world before the classic age. They have also shed some light on the development of horse racing as a sport.

The masses who gathered divided into their favourite colours. The seating order reflected the different strata of Roman society with the first rows reserved for senators, high ranking officials and the Vestal Virgins. Then came the knights, the guilds and colleges and finally the common people. Even the different orders of priests had their own place. A number of vivid descriptions exist telling how the audience -- in the Circus Maximus between 100,000-250,000 -- noisily greeted the emperor, addressed him with thoroughly orchestrated chants, gained benefits, had officials suspended or simply expressed their dedication to their rulers. It was here where political events and personalities were discussed and approval or discontent expressed. Often enough riots broke out in the heated atmosphere of the races with horrific results.One after the other the chariots were released with the ones in the middle starting last. After 320m in straight lanes, a trumpet was blown, on which signal they were allowed to leave the lanes and the race began in earnest. Now they entered the U-shaped course itself, marked by two turning posts, in Greek `nyssa', with a distance of three stadiums between them, i.e. 576m. It seems most likely that there were short, middle and long distance races. Apart from these, there were different disciplines, like two- and four-handed races, or different animals were raced; foals, mares, stallions, mules and asses. It has been suggested that races with female drivers took place but this seems unlikely.

As you can see, the race arena was not like a gladiator arena but the same result in the death of the competitors was acomplished.

The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman chariot driver named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. He raced for 24 years and won 35,863,120 in prize money. This is recorded on an inscription erected in Rome by his fellow charioteers and fans upon his retirement. It was said his total winnings were enough to provide the entire city of Rome with grain for a whole year. In today's money his winnings would be about $15 billion.

The chariot drivers wore tunics in the colors of their teams. The four main colors were the Blues, the Greens, the Whites and the Reds.

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The three turning posts at each end of the central dividing wall (spina) were called "metae". The narrow turn at the metae on the east end was particularly dangerous. It was also named the "taraxippus" which translates as "horse-terror" or "horse-disturber". (sing.- meta) See Circus Maximus for verification.

Hyksos were the first to have chariots

Probably not. The chariot races attracted both rich and poor consistently while the gladiator games mainly attracted the poor.The rich did attend the gladiatorial combats, especially when it was known that the emperor would be present, but many of the wealthy simply did not like them. The poor frequented the gladiatorial games because of the added attraction of gifts being thrown out to the crowd at the day's end. In addition, the seating capacity for the races (Circus Maximus) was loosely four times the capacity for an amphitheater (Colosseum) enforcing the idea that the races were more popular.

In Rome the chariot races were held mainly in the Circus Maximus. There was also the Circus Flaminius for races. A clue is the word "circus", which means racecourse. Any Roman structure with the word "circus" in its name, would be a racecourse.

The current use of the word "dressage" is, in England, of comparatively recent date. The word has been taken over verbally from the French, as a term connected with horsemanship. The fact that there just is no exact equivalent whereby to translate "dressage" into English probably goes a long way to explain the misunderstanding, and sometimes event the touch of mystery, whereto the use of this word has given rise.

I believe the word dressage is the french word for training. I could be wrong.

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Step one: Take a plastic wagon with a flat base and two wheels that doesn't have sides. Hopefully, the wagon will have slots in the base for planks of wood to be later put in. (the reason that I don't suggest for you to build a flat base is that the base will not be sturdy and will collapse and cause fatal injuries to you and the rider.)

Step two: Take four 2'x4'x8" and cut down into the appropriate lengths. Make sure that they slope down in the back to create the chariot effect. Then, place them into the slots at the bottom of the chariot base. This will create the frame for the chariot.

Step three: Cut cardboard so it will fit around the frame and paint.

Step four: Take two more 2'x4'x8" planks and secure them to the front of the chariot, creating the way to pull the chariot around.

Yeah, yeah. I know it's not the most detailed description, but hopefully it will give you an idea as to how to build something like this.

because it helped people like the Romans and the egyptians travel places faster but also it help them fight wars

110cm is the offical length. It may differ depending on the show.

In the movie Ben Hur there was one terrific chariot race. I think to this day one of the best done in a movie.

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Yes it was. A hoplitodrome was a chariot race.