war chariots
Ancient combat vehicles
War chariots were two-wheeled vehicles pulled by horses, used in ancient warfare primarily as mobile platforms for archers or spearmen.
They dominated battlefields across Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China before cavalry made them obsolete.
The term often evokes Bronze Age military technology: Pharaoh's war chariots pursued the Israelites.
- yokeCrosspiece binding draft animals
- reinsBit-attached steering straps
- charioteerOne who drives horses
- axleShaft for wheel rotation
- harnessStraps controlling an animal
war horses · shock tactics · flanking maneuvers · armor plating · driver · spear · defensive formations · wheels · Assyrians · Egyptian army · hooves · Hittites · blade · gallop · carts · wagons · Bronze Age · thundering
- Ancient PersiaPersepolis, Cyrus the Great, Xerxes, Behistun inscription, satrap
- Egyptian chariotsspoked wheels, leather harness, chariotry
- Iron Age EuropeHallstatt culture, Iron Age, Celts, Gauls, druids
- weaponsknife, gun, sword, swords, rifle
- Ancient Greek warfareAchilles, Hector, Ajax, Odysseus, Agamemnon
- ancient armiesphalanx, legion, hoplites, heavy infantry, light infantry
war chariotsinfantry
Ground combat troops
foot soldiers · cavalry · mounted warriors · pikemen · war elephants
war chariotstanks
Storage vessels for liquids
armored vehicles · armored personnel carriers · mechanized infantry · fighter jets · drones