USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first equid was Hyracotherium, a small forest animal of the early Eocene. It looked nothing at all like a horse (10 – 20” hight). It resembled a dog with an arched back, short neck, short snout, short legs, and long tail.

Detailed explanation-2: -Horses are native to North America. Forty-five million-year-old fossils of Eohippus, the modern horse’s ancestor, evolved in North America, survived in Europe and Asia, and returned with the Spanish explorers.

Detailed explanation-3: -During the Pleistocene (Ice Age), more than 20, 000 years ago, wild horses that had evolved in America migrated to the Old World, Eurasia and Africa. More than 6, 000 year ago in the Volga basin of eastern Europe horses were domesticated and in the subsequent millennia spread to other parts of Asia, Europe, and Africa.

Detailed explanation-4: -Yet, the official story that was written into the history books, and which persists today, is that the New World had no horses before the arrival of the Spanish. According to the narrative, the first horses to arrive in the New World in 1519 were the progenitors of every horse found on the continent in later years.