Their troops fight from chariots, as did the Greeks in the Trojan War.

Unlike the other Olympic events, charioteers did not perform in the nude, probably for safety reasons because of the dust kicked up by the horses and chariots, and the likelihood of bloody crashes.

On the matter of their origins, they were not Hurrians from northern Syria and Anatolia, they did not invade Egypt with chariots and horses and their capital city of Avaris was not to be located in the vicinity of Tanis.

** Because of bad weather two chariots did not reach the harbour.

The southern Britons met Julius Caesar with chariots in 55 and 54 BC, but by the time of the Roman conquest of Britain a century later chariots were obsolete even in Britannia.

Solomon gathers a large number of horses and chariots and even brings in horses from Egypt.

Thus they display in battle the speed of horse, with the firmness of infantry ; and by daily practice and exercise attain to such expertness that they are accustomed, even on a declining and steep place, to check their horses at full speed, and manage and turn them in an instant and run along the pole, and stand on the yoke, and thence betake themselves with the greatest celerity to their chariots again.

Most notable among these is: " For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

*: For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

; Khemrian Warsphinx ( Special Unit ): A monster that towers over infantry, cavalry and even chariots.

Improvements in the ability to train horses soon allowed them to be used to pull chariots, possibly as early as 2100 BC, and their greater speed and power made chariots even more efficient.

They discuss standing armies and the use of chariots, war elephants and even flying machines in wars.

Horses and chariots require a lot of time and upkeep, so their use was mainly confined to a small nobility.

The A script appeared to have preceded the B. Evans dated the Linear B Chariot Tablets, so called from their depictions of chariots, at Knossos to immediately prior to the catastrophic Minoan civilization collapse of the 15th century BC.

They may have been the first to yoke four horses ( rather than two ) to their chariots.

However, by this time cavalry was far more effective and agile than the chariot, and the defeat of Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela ( 331 BC ), where the army of Alexander simply opened their lines and let the chariots pass and attacked them from behind, marked the end of the era of chariot warfare.

* Ezekiel 26: 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.

* Isaiah 2: 7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures ; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots.

Their mode of fighting with their chariots is this: firstly, they drive about in all directions and throw their weapons and generally break the ranks of the enemy with the very dread of their horses and the noise of their wheels ; and when they have worked themselves in between the troops of horse, leap from their chariots and engage on foot.

The charioteers in the meantime withdraw some little distance from the battle, and so place themselves with the chariots that, if their masters are overpowered by the number of the enemy, they may have a ready retreat to their own troops.

The cache included weapons, shields, chariots along with their fittings and harnesses, and slave chains and tools.

Their extensive stance among the other empires of the Liao, Song, and Jin was attributable to their effective military organizations that integrated cavalry, chariots, archery, shields, artillery ( cannons carried on the back of camels ), and amphibious troops for combats on land and water.

" 19: 19 Isaiah also speaks of such a battle: " The Lord will come with fire and with his chariots, like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

Sayce and other scholars also mention that Judah and the Hittites were never enemies in the Hebrew texts ; in the Book of Kings, they supplied the Israelites with cedar, chariots, and horses, as well as being a friend and allied to Abraham in the Book of Genesis.

* the solid wheel, used for wagons, but not yet chariots with spoked wheels

These Confucian Analects citations of dao verbally meaning " to guide ; to lead " are: " The Master said, ' In guiding a state of a thousand chariots, approach your duties with reverence and be trustworthy in what you say " and " The Master said, ' Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame.

The state of Zhao had first replaced chariots with cavalry in 307 BC, but the change was swiftly adopted by the other states because cavalry had greater mobility over the terrain of China.

The chariots of the Egyptians and Assyrians, with whom the bow was the principal arm of attack, were richly mounted with quivers full of arrows.

1 Samuel 13: 5 mentions chariots of the Philistines, who are sometimes identified with the Sea Peoples or early Greeks.

* And Solomon gathered chariots and horsemen: and he had a thousand and four hundred chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, which he placed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

* And the LORD was with Judah ; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain ; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

From Tacitus ( Agricola 1. 35-36 ) " The plain between resounded with the noise and with the rapid movements of chariots and cavalry.

Excepting a few ineffective attempts to revive scythed chariots, and continuing far eastern use, the use of chariots in battle was obsolete in civilized nations by the time of the Persian defeat at the hands of Alexander the Great, but chariots remained in use for ceremonial purposes such as carrying the victorious general in a Roman triumph, or for racing.

A major component of the film is the mixing of the old and modern ; Chiron and Demetrius dress like modern rock stars, but the Andronici dress like Roman soldiers ; some characters use chariots, some use cars and motorcycles ; crossbows and swords are used alongside rifles and pistols ; tanks are seen driven by soldiers in ancient Roman garb ; bottled beer is seen alongside ancient bottles of wine ; microphones are used to address characters in ancient clothing.

The Greek hippodrome was similar to the Roman Circus, except that in the latter only four chariots ran at a time, whereas ten or more contended in the Greek games, so that the width was far greater, being about., the course being 600 to.

The late Roman writer Vegetius, referring in his work De Re Militari to scythed chariots, wrote:

An anonymous 6th-century Roman military treatise also proposed one unusual, experimental unit of scythed chariots with cataphract lancers mounted on the chariot's horses, though there is no evidence that this unit ever materialised.

Archelaus ’ s chariots then charged the Roman centre, only to be destroyed on the palisades.

The Roman ally Eumenes, commanding all their cavalry on the right of the Roman-Allied army counterattacked the Seleucid left, already disrupted by the scythed chariots, and broke it.

The Roman line initially buckled under the Gauls ' chariots.

As a result, the specialized anti-elephant Roman chariots were quickly deployed by legion commanders ; though briefly proving effective, the small force was eventually overwhelmed by Greek psiloi.

9, 4 ), since at all periods in the Roman chariot-race only as many chariots competed as there were so-called factions, which were originally only two, the white and the red ( Mommsen, R. H. i. 236, note ).

At its simplest, the Roman race-course took the form of two posts ; each called a discrimen or a meta, round which the runners, whether on foot, on horses or in chariots, raced.

It was based on the SSW concept car first exhibited at the 23rd Tokyo Motor Show in 1979, and named for the battle chariots used during the times of the ancient Greek and Roman Empires.