Cute Wolf 05:15 04-07-2010
Originally Posted by Zradha Pahlavan:
Okay, so the general consensus here seems to be that they were one-man vehicles.
Also, I recently read a description about the battle of Gaugamela in a book that said the chariots had only a driver, and that the Greeks used archers to pick off the chariots' drivers, thus making them useless. According to that book the charioteers also jumped off of the chariots just before they hit the enemy lines, though I find that idea somewhat unlikely, unless the guys had low morale and just didn't feel like dying.
Ancient
suicide car chariot bombs? oh yeah, they didn't want to doing suicide because the philoshopical system 2200 years ago was much less pessimistic and fatalistic than today...
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