chariot betydelse and definition

Exempel på chariot

• Around 2000 BCE the Egyptians started using spokes on their chariot wheels. 

• By 500 BCE, many types of wheeled vehicles were in use, from fast chariots to large, slow carts. 

• Chariot races were an important part of the Greek Olympic Games. 

• The Ancient Greeks and Romans loved watching high-speed chariot races. 

• There were fast chariots to fight in wars, slow carts to carry food and other goods, and comfortable carriages for rich people to get around in. 

• Chariots, drawn by four horses and containing soldiers armed with spears and javelins and archers, were much in use. 

• From one of these chariots alighted several venerable men, their hair whitened with age. 

• His chariot was overturned "with a hideous crash" at such danger to himself, "that he did not believe he should ever hazard himself again in any sort of wheel carriage."