THE AGE OF BRONZE 
yet been solved; but at least we know in a general way 
what happened. 
Recent discoveries have shown that this use of the horse 
is connected very closely with the spread of the early 
Indo-European peoples, and that wherever they first ap- 
pear in history they are found employing the horse and 
chariot as their principal instrument of war. Just as the 
early Spaniards in Mexico and Peru owed some of their 
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Fic. 99. Four-wheeled wagon. The two draft animals have been 
called horses but are more probably intended for oxen. Design 
incised on a clay vessel; Hungary, early Iron Age (go0-s500 Bh.c.). 
After de Morgan 
greatest victories to their use of horses and the terror which 
the latter inspired among the Indians, so the early Indo- 
European peoples undoubtedly could ascribe much of 
their success to the speed with which they could maneuver 
on the battlefield in their war chariots, and perhaps even 
more to the panic which the latter inspired in their oppo- 
nents. To people who had never had to stand up before 
one, a charge of war chariots, with the galloping horses and 
the rumbling wheels, the yelling men and the flashing 
bronze weapons, must have seemed a terrible thing. Those 
of us who have seen automobiles or street-cars bearing 
swiftly down on us can appreciate something of their 
feelings. 
The grassland horse breeders, whom we can safely call 
Indo-Europeans—our own ancestors in speech and partly, 
too, in blood—must, through contact with their more 
civilized neighbors to the south, have gradually become 
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