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Chariots; A Brief History
Invented - No one knows for
sure, but they were being used around 2005 BC.
- The Romans claim wheel distance decided by the width of 2 horses behinds
or 56.5” Used for hunting, then battle and finally for sport. The sponsors owned the Chariots and had slaves race them, their
prize - freedom / fame and the sponsors made money from wagers or betting. At one time there were Chariot cities with hundreds
of Chariots stored in case of battle. In the bible, Pharaohs 600 Chariots went into the Red Sea in pursuit of Moses, and were
destroyed.
BIBLE ; Chariots are used figuratvely in the Prophecy of The Seven Seals - “They had breastplates of iron,
and the sound of their wings was the thundering of many horses and Chariots rushing into battle “(Revelation 9:9). or Motorcycles
in a race ?
Automobile Racing
Started in Rome and was known as Chariot Races?
Its always been Man & Machinery
vs. Man & Machinery, but instead of horses pulling a man on wheels, its horsepower pulling a man in steel. Automobile racing
has the horsepower under the hood, our racers have the horsepower in front of the hood.
The U.S. Standard railroad
gauge (distance between rails) is 4 feet 8.5".
The first long-distance roads in Europe were built by Imperial Rome for
the benefit of their legions. The roads have been used ever since. The initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for
fear of destroying their wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Because the chariots were made for or by Imperial
Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. The 4 feet 8 1/2 inches was derived from the width of 2 horses behinds.
The
chariot was most commonly a light, two-wheeled vehicle that was drawn by two horses. Chariots were used in war, hunting, travel,
and racing.
The Greek Olympic games of the 7th century BC began with chariot races. Chariot racing, a primitive contest
of strength and stamina which pitted men in horse-drawn vehicles against each other, is believed by most archaeologists to
have preceded mounted horse racing—traditionally thought of as the oldest of civilization's animal sports—by several centuries.
Earliest mention of chariot racing is found in Homer's Iliad.
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