In neolithic times the wild steed was presumably first hunted for food.

Research
suggests that domestication had taken place by roughly,000 times agone

. It's supposed that the steed was first used by a lineage of Indo- European origin
that lived in the downs north of the chain of mountains conterminous to the Black
and Caspian swell. told by climate, food, and humans, the steed fleetly acquired its
present form.

Clydesdales

Clydesdales

The relationship of the steed to humans has been unique. The steed is a mate and
friend. It has furrowed fields and brought in the crop, hauled goods and conveyed
passengers, followed game and tracked cattle, and carried combatants into battle
and comers to unknown lands. It has handed recreation in the form of jousts, events,
carousels, and the sport of riding. The influence of the steed is expressed in the
English language in similar terms as chivalry and cavalier, which connote honour,
respect, good mores, and plumpness.

Pompeii mosaic of Alexander the Great

Pompeii mosaic of Alexander the Great

The steed is the “ proudest subjection of Man, ” according to the French zoologist
Georges- Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon. Its place was at its master’s side in the
graves of the Scythian lords or in the sepultures of the dictators. numerous early
mortal societies were centred on possession of the steed. Superstition read meaning
into the colours of the steed, and a steed’s head suspended near a grave or
sanctuary or on the gables of a house conferred supernatural powers on the place.
Greek tradition created the Centaur, the most egregious symbol of the oneness of
steed and rider. White stallions were the supreme immolation to the gods, and the
Greek general Xenophon recorded that “ gods and icons are depicted on well-
trained nags. ” A beautiful and well- trained steed was, thus, a status symbol in
ancient Greece. lords, generals, and statesmen, of necessity, had to be
horsewomen.