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forerunnerпопередник
divergentщо розходиться, відхиляється
to breedрозводити
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Text 11. Horse
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Throughout much of human history, horses have been closely associated with men. For thousands of years men hunted the horse for its meat. Later, after the horse was domesticated, nomadic tribes used horses as load-bearers and as sources of milk. The horse first became important in warfare sometime before 1500 B. C. when Mesopotamian peoples began to use horses to pull their war chariots, and throughout most of recorded history horses were used chiefly for warfare. The use of the horse for pulling heavy loads and tilling the soil was a comparatively recent development, following the development of the satisfactory harness in the late Middle Ages. In fact, horses did not replace oxen as the main source of agricultural power until the end of the 18th century. After a brief reign as the most widely used source of tractive power, the work horse has been largely displaced by locomotives, automobiles, trucks, and tractors.
Horses now are used chiefly for the sports of horseback riding and racing, and their popularity for these purposes is so great that the horse population in some regions has actually increased.
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