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tbf people were lot shorter too

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Not just in Egypt too. What happened to Punt? How about the Kushites? These were powerful people who traded with and fought with Egypt. We’ve got some stuff in Sudan and Somalia but how much more is out there?

Wild guesswork isn't the best way to figure out things, especially when contradicting someone giving actual sources and facts.

Training animals to pull things came before horse riding, as humans already had experience attaching oxen and donkeys to ploughs and carts. Then they had the idea of standing on a tiny cart pulled by a horse, and only a long time afterwards did folks get the idea to sit on the actual horse. It might seem obvious to us, but it was absurd in ancient times, so much that legends of centaurs sprang up in greece when they heard of barbarians "riding" around.

so much? It changed so little.

We probably rode giant emus in New Zealand.

We are just awaiting a discovery of a painted vase that proves this.

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That emoji is like the logo for overconfidence online.

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I’ve seen rocks with people riding dragons around too, I should gather them up from the playground and get a dating done on them.

>My suspicion is that the earliest horsefolk were riders

Don't archeological records seem to indicate that the early domesticated horses to be too small to bear the weight of a man same way latter breeds do, which is why chariots were invented to begin with?

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>Ptolemaic line is Greek

Macedonian.

Stone. It tends to last a while.

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Americans had llamas?! What? Was George Washington leading a fight with some llamas?

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The Proto-Indo-European words for axle and horse are reconstructed as *h₂eḱs and *h₂éḱwos, so I'm not sure you can make a strong argument that *nókʷts (night) changed more than them.

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Good example of a cognate in the german language-family.

Explains all those visits to the bar as well.

Believe it or not, but the Egyptian horses at that battle were - at the time - actually considered to be quite big!

Earlier pharaohs had to make do with an even smaller breed, the Central Asian Akhal-Teke. Ye olde Egyptians didn't get their hands on thoroughbred ("pur-sang") Arabian horses until the reigns of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II.

The Mesopotamians first referred to horses as "fast-donkeys" or "mountain-donkeys."