Legacy of the Steppe: Traces of the Scythian Horse
Journal: Sosyal Bilimler ve Eğitim Dergisi
Year: 2021

The domestication of the horse and the economic, social, military and cultural benefits from the horse in time, in a sense, is one of the important events in history. Although there are different opinions on this issue, cultural historians agree that the Turks played the biggest role in the domestication of the horse for the first time. The use of the horse as a riding animal by the Turks is essentially a cultural breakthrough. Considering the North China and central Inner Asia, where the Turkis