The cavalry, a small history of the development of the world, was eventually drowned in the wheel of historical progress

Literature and history is a painting, culture is painting paper, history is countless waves, culture is a river, history is a gorgeous flower, culture is a big garden, history is a star. History is long, and China is vast. However, historical events are sometimes very strange, but history is tortuous, in ancient history, is a history of war, war often determines the victory or defeat of the commander, or well-equipped troops.

Armored cavalry generally refers to cavalry full of armor, armed to the teeth, and then the war horse is also cloaked in armor for protection, a full armor, people, horses into one of the cavalry; because of the heavy clothing, generally speaking, the armored cavalry is only suitable for charging, not suitable for long-distance attacks. The world's earliest armored cavalry may have come from the Scythians, a nomadic cavalry from Eurasia in the 6th century BC. For more than 1,000 years, the Persian Empire, parthian (Sabbath), Armenia, and the late Roman Empire had armored cavalry. However, these armored cavalry did not have stirrups, which limited the impact and melee attack capabilities of the armored cavalry.

The wheel of history, which went to the 7th to 8th centuries AD, with the westward spread of stirrups, the armored cavalry of West Asia and the Mediterranean region also received an upgrade of this stirrup technology. Later, the ironclad cavalry of the Eastern Roman Empire (ancient Byzantium), the Ghulam cavalry of the Seljuk Turks, and the Mamluk cavalry of Egypt all dominated medieval Europe for a time.

The world's most important cavalry are: Scythian cavalry (4th century BC), Parthian cavalry (1st century BC), Byzantine cavalry (10th century), Arab Mamluk cavalry (13th century) and Timurid Empire cavalry (15th century).

European cavalry, rarely the tradition of war horse armor, but in the traditional impression of the production of "tin knights" in medieval Western Europe, knights pay more attention to the speed of the charge. European Renaissance armored cavalry armor. Due to the rapid development of muskets, knights had to reduce the protective area of their armor in exchange for the thickness of their armor. It was not until the 12th-14th centuries AD that european knights in costume briefly became popular in wearing horse armor on warhorses, but they were soon abandoned with the introduction of gunpowder.

Finally, with the advent of gunpowder, the emergence of new weapons and equipment muskets and artillery, the uniformed cavalry gradually withdrew from the battlefield competition, became an honor guard cavalry decoration, and finally withdrew from the stage of history.

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