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Anonymous03/14/26, 04:59No.64968407
Europe's terrain didn't change after the Romans collapsed, so why did everyone stop using chariots in warfare?
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Anon03/14/26, 05:02No.64968415
Horses got bigger and saddles were invented so it became cost-effective to have one horse per soldier.
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Anon03/14/26, 05:03No.64968416
Romans didn't use chariots in warfare, they used them for racing.
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Anon03/14/26, 05:16No.64968429
Chariots were already a meme back in the days of the Romans. They used them for racing and to transport dignitaries during processions.
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Anon03/14/26, 05:22No.64968436
romans never really used them in war read a book made of paper
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Anon03/14/26, 05:54No.64968470
Chariots were an obsolete doctrine even by the Roman period, and during the Roman period cavalry went through several doctrinal changes (light cav, horse archers, cataphracts) until eventually landing on the classical Medieval Knight. What's the point of a chariot when you could have an armored horse and armored rider?
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Anon03/14/26, 05:57No.64968474
Some steppe nomad invented a stirrup and everyone swapped to heavy cavalry.
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Anon03/14/26, 10:03No.64968773
Didn't the Romans consider the British barbaric because they still used chariots?
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Anon03/14/26, 18:37No.64969962
They became overengineered tanks.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:40No.64969969
Chariots were only useful when they were the only way to use horses in warfare. Once mounted cavalry became viable there was no reason to use chariots. Horsemen were faster, nimble and easier and cheaper to maintain.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:51No.64969992
>Europe's terrain didn't change after the Romans collapsed
My nig, it actually did. First, forests came back in a major way and then the colonization of Germany happened.
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Anon03/14/26, 18:52No.64969998
...The Romans didn't really use chariots in warfare.There are loads of theories. One is that horses weren't suited to riding in earlier periods (absolutely false, as the first bodies with deformations indicative of constant horseback riding appear in Europe before the chariot), lack of equipment (bits, saddles, stirrups) which seems unlikely as if you can get a horse to pull a chariot, you can figure out a way to ride them.My theory is that chariots were incredibly effective against people who had never seen a chariot. They were not very effective at all against people who knew what a chariot was. They would be absurdly terrifying at first contact. But when you're facing people who know what a chariot is, have and use chariots themselves (even if not in war) it's just not as effective as a shock and awe weapon. It seems like war elephants were rather similar to be honest. By the iron age you're definitively not an Aryan warlord riding down the berrypickers and erasing their genome, the people you're facing are equally familiar with the chariot and their warriors are also an Aryan derived noble caste who specialize in warfare.