Around 6,000 years ago our ancestors began domesticating horses, the first to do this were believed to come from what is now Ukraine and around the Eurasian Steppes, the Sumerian peoples had never seen horses and when they first encountered riders from these regions they refered to horses as the “Animal of the mountains”. Around this same time the potters wheel is inventing allowing for the more rapid industrial creation of pottery, the chicken is also domesticated around this time.















