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Horse people is a generalized and somewhat obsolete term for various Nomad ic or semi-nomadic Ethnic Groups , typically inhabiting the Eurasia n Steppe s, with an emphasis in their economy and culture on Horse Breeding and Horse Riding . These were the earliest to have used Cavalry tactics (see Cataphract ) in warfare, introducing innovations like Bridle , Bit , Stirrup and Mounted Archer . The Roman Army hired Sarmatian s as elite cavalrymen. Europe was exposed to several waves of invasions by horse people, from the Cimmerians in the 8th Century BC , down to the Migration Period , and the Mongols and Seljuks in the High Middle Ages , and the Tatar s down into modern times. The earliest example of an invasion by a horse people may have been by the Proto-Indo-Europeans themselves, following the Domestication Of The Horse in the 4th Millennium BC (see Kurgan Hypothesis ). Cimmerian is the first invasion of equestrian steppe nomads that we can grasp from historical sources. The " Huns " of the Migration period were not a single ethnicity, but a conglomerate of Mongolian, Turkic, Iranian and Germanic and Slavic warbands. Hermannus Contractus in the entry for the year 379 in his ''Chronicon'' lists ''Gothos, Hunnos, Alanosque'' as virtual synonyms. The concept was of some importance in 19th Century scholarship, in connection with the rediscovery of Germanic Pagan culture by Romanticism (see Viking Revival ), which viewed idealized the Goths in particular as a heroic horse-people. Tolkien 's Rohirrim may be seen as an idealized Germanic people influenced by these romantic notions. Iron Age / Classical Antiquity | ||
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