Rata

Rata adalah sejenis pedati kuda yang paling awal dan ringkas. Ia digunakan di waktu aman dan perang sebagai ketua kenderaan dari kebanyakan orang purba. Pedati lembu dan rata-proto telah dibina di Mesopotamia seawal tahun 3000 SM. Rata kuda asal adalah laju, ringan, terbuka, beroda dua atau empat dan ditarik oleh dua atau lebih ekor kuda yang diikat sebelah-menyebelah. Rata, dengan dipandu oleh seorang penunggang rata digunakan dalam peperangan purba pada zaman Gangsa dan Besi. Ia biasanya dilengkapi dengan perisai. Kenderaan ini terus digunakan untuk perjalanan, perbarisan dan permainan dan perlumbaan selepas ia tidak digunakan untuk tujuan ketenteraan. Dari segi ketenteraan, penggunaan rata menjadi lapuk setelah usaha-usaha pembiakan untuk menghasilkan kuda cukup besar bagi ditunggang ke medan peperangan.

Lihat juga
Pemakaman rata
Perlumbaan rata
Taktik rata
Kereta kebal
Ratha nama Sanskirt untuk rata
Gerabak perang
Tachanka
Kereta kuil

Nota

Rujukan
Anthony, D. W., & Vinogradov, N. B., Birth of the Chariot, Archaeology vol.48, no.2, Mar & April 1995, 36-41
Anthony, David W., 1995, Horse, wagon & chariot: Indo-European languages and archaeology, Antiquity Sept/1995 
Di Cosmo, Nicolo, The Northern Frontier in Pre-Imperial China, Cambridge History of Ancient China ch. 13 (pp. 885–966).
Litauer, M.A., & Grouwel, J.H., The Origin of the True Chariot', "Antiquity" vol.70, No.270, December 1996, 934-939.
Sparreboom, M., Chariots in the Veda, Leiden (1985).

Bacaan lanjut
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Pautan luar
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Chariots in Greece. Hellenica - Michael Lahanas.
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Remaking the Wheel: Evolution of the Chariot - New York Times. February 22, 1994.

Peperangan pada era purba
Rata
Kenderaan berkuasa haiwan
Jenis artifak arkeologi
India-Eropah
Zaman Gangsa
Zaman Besi
Kenderaan perang pada zaman purba