Editing Cavalry (section)

===Central Asia===
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[[File:Imperial Encyclopaedia - Military Administration - pic558 - 鬼箭撒圖.png|thumb|Chinese [[caltrop]] jar]]

[[Xiongnu]], [[Tujue]], [[Avars (Carpathians)|Avars]], [[Kipchaks]], [[Khitan people|Khitans]], [[Mongol]]s, [[Don Cossack]]s and the various [[Turkic peoples]] are also examples of the horse-mounted groups that managed to gain substantial successes in military conflicts with settled agrarian and urban societies, due to their strategic and tactical mobility. As European states began to assume the character of bureaucratic [[nation-states]] supporting professional standing armies, recruitment of these mounted warriors was undertaken in order to fill the strategic roles of scouts and raiders.

The best known instance of the continued employment of mounted tribal auxiliaries were the Cossack cavalry regiments of the [[Russian Empire]]. In [[Eastern Europe]], and out onto the [[steppes]], cavalry remained important much longer and dominated the scene of warfare until the early 17th century and even beyond, as the strategic mobility of cavalry was crucial for the semi-nomadic [[pastoralism|pastoralist]] lives that many steppe cultures led.<!-- This needs a re-write as the chronology is all over the place --> [[Tibet]]ans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements with the Chinese [[Tang dynasty]] (618–907 AD).

====Khanates of Central Asia====
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File:Mongol warrior of Genghis Khan.jpg|[[Mongol]] mounted archer of Genghis Khan late 12th century.
File:Ryszkiewicz Tatars in the vanguard.jpg|[[Tatars|Tatar]] vanguard in [[Eastern Europe]] 13th–14th centuries.
File:DiezAlbumsArmedRiders II.jpg|Mongols at war 14th century
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