Chariot
The chariot is a type of horse carriage used in both peace and war as the chief vehicle of many ancient peoples. Ox carts, proto-chariots, were built by the Proto-Indo-Europeans and were also built in Mesopotamia as early as 3000 BC. The original chariot was a fast, light, open, two-wheeled conveyance drawn by two or more horses that were hitched side by side. The car was little more than a floor with a waist-high semicircular guard in front. The chariot, driven by a charioteer, was used for ancient warfare during the bronze and the iron ages. Armor was limited to a shield. The vehicle was used for travel and in processions, games, and races after it had been superseded by other vehicles for military purposes.
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... as part of a ritual for the children of Ares, she must bring Ares war chariot back to his temple, the Intrepid ... fear) and Deimos (representing terror), who are the usual drivers and guardians of the chariot, grew jealous and stole it from Clarisse ... They bring the chariot to Ares' Temple on the Intrepid, an aircraft carrier that has since now become a museum ...
... Chariot is a populated area on the coast of the Chukchi Sea in the western part of North Slope Borough in the U.S ... The place was named around 1962 after Project Chariot by personnel of the project ...
... The Monteleone chariot is an Etruscan chariot dated to c ... Though about 300 ancient chariots are known to still exist, only six are reasonably complete, and the Monteleone chariot is the best-preserved and most ...
... Sun Chariot (foaled 1939 in Ireland) was a good Thoroughbred racehorse that won the Fillies Triple Crown series of races ... Sun Chariot was a filly of great talent but very difficult temperament ...
... The Cherub with Chariot Egg or Angel with Egg in Chariot is a Tsar Imperial Fabergé egg, one of a series of fifty-two jeweled eggs made under the supervision of Peter Carl Faberg ...
More definitions of "chariot":
- (verb): Transport in a chariot.
- (noun): A two-wheeled horse-drawn battle vehicle; used in war and races in ancient Egypt and Greece and Rome.
- (noun): A light four-wheel horse-drawn ceremonial carriage.
Famous quotes containing the word chariot:
“Whose starward eye
Saw chariot “swing low”? And who was he
That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
“Nobody knows de trouble I see”?”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)
“Yet ere I can say where—the chariot hath
Passed over them—nor other trace I find
But as of foam after the ocean’s wrath”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“Away with the cant of “Measures, not men!”Mthe idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along. No, Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures comparatively nothing.”
—George Canning (1770–1827)