How come horses were so common all over the world in the past

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I recently watched a documentary about a brief history of each continent when I noticed horses were really common everywhere for an example Genghis khan in Asia, Saladin in Africa, natives in North and South America and all over Europe too. I know they’ve been brought with settlers to Australia because it was mentioned in the documentary but what about the other continents ?

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Its actually pretty simple. Traders know they will sell for a bunch of money and/or use them.

Horse pulls your wagons. You don’t just have enough to pull your wagons, you have a few spare because one might get lame. You show up at the next town in your trade route and they have never seen a horse before. But man can it pull a wagon.

They offer you a fair price for the horse, and again you have spares. Rinse and repeat over a few centuries and you have horses everywhere.

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