War is a very dangerous event and should be avoided at all costs. What happens when you can not avoid war? You as a society invent inventions that will make war safer and easier to win in the end. Before tanks and airplanes there were chariots. Chariots made infantry men mobile. "In this research paper on War Chariots of Egypt which I am writing for Professor Williams" 2003 World Civilization class, I will compare text and web sources that are pertinent." .
The origin of the chariot is unclear; some historians believe that the chariot originated from areas in Mesopotamia. "[ ] Chariots, shown in Sumerian depictions from about 2500 BC [ ]. " The chariots found in Sumerian are not the same style of chariots found in later on in Egypt. "[ ] [the chariots] were not true chariots but four-wheeled carts with solid wooden wheels drawn by a team of four donkeys or wild asses."1 "The chariot paved its way into the Egyptian culture around 1500 BC." From those four-wheeled carts the Egyptians changed and adapted them to a two wheeled contraption. .
Many things make up a chariot from the kind of axle to how many spokes the wheels have. "[ ] [Chariots] never had more than two wheels; these were carefully made of different wood or metal, and had four, or more usually six spokes." "The Egyptian war-chariot had six spokes while the carriage chariots had only four." The wheels were not the only important part of the chariot. "The axle carried the body of the carriage, which consisted of a floor, surrounded in front and at the sides with a lightly-hung wooden railing." The harnesses from the horses to the chariot were hooked up and over a crossbar that connected the horses. The Egyptians put a large piece of leather between the horse and strap that connected them to the crossbar to prevent the damage to the horse's neck from extensive wear. "Reins were used to guide the horses; they passed over a hook in the back piece to the bits in the mouths of the horses.
