page for my reading of The Horse, The Wheel, and Language by David W. Anthony
to-do:
1. Explain the difference between carts and chariots
2. Compare the technology and agriculture of Sintashta and Chou based on descriptions from China and the Barbarians as well as Random Notes on Bronze Age China. Also related: development of the mining industry and smelting industry in neighboring civilizations and its impact on trade in the Sintashta steppe.
3. Explore whether Sintashta were the original Aryans, "the ancestors of the people who... composed the Rig Veda and Avesta [i.e. Zoroaster]"
4. Take notes on how fiscal stressors from environmental changes resulted in wartime and military technology innovation