Approximate date
On the grasslands north of the Black Sea, people tame the horse that all riding horses descend from. Chariots soon spread across Asia and Europe.
How it touches Islam The Quran names horses, mules and donkeys as gifts 'for you to ride, and as adornment' (16:8).
Source: History ·
Borders come from Cliopatria, the open map of the Seshat Global History Databank (CC BY 4.0), and are approximate. Dates before 1000 BCE are estimates, and for the earliest prophets the Quran gives the order of events but not their years. Sources: the Quran, Sahih al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Seerah of Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Kathir's al-Bidaya wan-Nihaya, and standard histories. See also the villains of Islamic history, from Iblis to the Dajjal, and the library of people, nations, empires and places.
