Mounted Archery

Mounted archery is a form of archery that involves shooting arrows while on horseback. A horse archer is a person who does mounted archery. Archery has occasionally been used from the backs of other riding animals.

In large open areas, mounted archery was a highly successful technique for hunting, for protecting herds, and for war.
It was a defining characteristic of the Eurasian nomads during antiquity and the medieval period, as well as the Iranian peoples such as the Alans, Sarmatians, Cimmerians, Scythians, Massagetae, Parthians, and Persians in Antiquity, and by the Hungarians, Mongols, Chinese, and Turkic peoples during the Middle Ages.
The expansion of these cultures have had a great influence on other geographical regions including Eastern Europe, West Asia, and East Asia.

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