Driving chariots and training Horses
In the second millennium BC, the two wheeled, two-horse war chariot became available in the ancient Near East proving itself not merely as significant (a wide-reaching) innovation in weapons technology, but also as the cause of a social- historical revolution influencing the entire region including Egypt.
The Egyptians' first acquaintance with the new vehicle was coupled with a painful experience, because the horse and the chariot were accessible to the Hyksos, who invaded and ruled large parts of Egypt in the seventeenth century (BC), and this made them the first foreign rulers in the Egyptian history.
Mastering the skill and art of riding the chariots was attained only through constant practice. This practice included many steps. In the first place the warrior has to know how to guide the span of horses, secondly the warrior has to learn how to keep himself balanced in the chariot's basket and finally the warrior has to know how to shoot the arrows accurately from the shaky platform.
The mastery of such skills made the warrior feel the importance of his position as an exceptional one, apart from his national identity.
This common basis for understanding smoothed the diplomatic paths (relations) between the Egyptian king and the near Eastern courts. Moreover in diplomatic correspondences formal questions about the condition of the horses and the chariots, oftenly preceded the information about the warrior's safety.
An important evidence (weighty testimony) which emphasized the estimable value of the horse and the chariot in the New Kingdom: lied in the fact that the kings were not the only trainers of the horses, but also the ordinary Egyptian used to train his horses, and really this was a part in his private life.
An overseer , who was occupied away from home sent a report to his master informing him about the condition of his horses. He said "My lord's horses were healthy, I offered them their food portions daily , moreover the stable boys offered them the best of grass from papyrus thicket, in addition to this I used the yellow salve to brush them with every month. The stable master permitted me to take the horses for a race every ten days".
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