Something popped into my head and i have no idea why... But it's been making me think all damn night... And the thing that popped into my head was this...

What if horses never existed? What if, during evolution or whatever, man evolved into... Well, man, but horses never came into being... Can you imagine how so very different history would be without horses? Warfare i'm talking about... No cavalry... No horses to pull baggage carts and supplies up to the front line... No mobile units of ancient armies... How would the armed forces have evolved without the use of horses? What do you think personally would have changed?

I think the phalanx would never have become obsolete... I know it didn't in fact become obsolete, just the tactics that were employed with it became obsolete... But i think the phalanx would have continued to dominate the battlefield right up until the gunpowder era... Because a phalanx' worst enemy is the cavalry... Once you pin it down the cavalry hits the back and that's goodnight... Unless they started training men to be super fast runners and armed them with spears... Or maybe the west would have been archer dependant like the east... I don't know...

Why am i asking this? I don't know... It just came into my head out of nowhere and i thought it would be fun to discuss.