Chariot Wars
A chariot is a type of cart driven by a charioteer, usually using horses to provide rapid motive power. The oldest known chariots have been found in burials of the Sintashta culture in modern-day Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, dated to c. 2000 BCE. The critical invention that allowed the construction of light, horse-drawn chariots was the spoked wheel. The chariot was a fast, light, open, two-wheeled conveyance drawn by two or more horses that were hitched side by side, and was little more than a floor with a waist-high guard at the front and sides. It was initially used for ancient warfare during the Bronze and Iron Ages, but after its military capabilities had been superseded by light and heavy cavalries, chariots continued to be used for travel and transport, in processions, for games, and in races. Etymology The word "chariot" comes from the Latin term ''carrus'', a loanword from Gaulish. In ancient Rome and some other ancient Mediterranean civilizations, a ''biga'' requ ...
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Biga
Biga may refer to: Places * Biga, Çanakkale, a town and district of Çanakkale Province in Turkey * Sanjak of Biga, an Ottoman province * Biga Çayı, a river in Çanakkale Province * Biga Peninsula, a peninsula in Turkey, in the northwest part of Anatolia Other uses * Biga (bread baking), a type of pre-fermentation used in Italian baking * Biga and Busca, two political factions in the 15th century Catalan Civil War * Biga (typeface) * Biga (chariot), a two-horse chariot used in ancient Mediterranean countries * Bigha, a unit of land area used in North India * Biga language, an Austronesian language of West Papua, Indonesia See also

* Bigeh, an island in the River Nile * Biga Ranx (born 1988), French musician {{Disambiguation, geo ...
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