Editing Chariot (section)

===Persia===
{{Main|Scythed chariot}}
[[File:A vase discovered in the southeast of Iran dating back to 2000 BC.jpg|thumb|200x200px|A vase showing a warrior riding a chariot pulled by a horse, from southeastern Iran, c. 2000–1800 BC.]]
[[File:Oxus chariot model.jpg|thumb|A golden chariot made during [[Achaemenid Empire]] (550–330 BC)|200x200px]]

The [[Achaemenid Empire|Persians]] succeeded [[Elam]] in the mid 1st millennium. They may have been the first to yoke four horses to their chariots. They also used [[scythed chariot]]s. [[Cyrus the Younger]] employed these chariots in large numbers at the [[Battle of Cunaxa]].

[[Herodotus]] mentions that the [[Ancient Libya]]n and the [[Ancient India]]n ([[Sattagydia]], [[Gandhara]] and [[Hindush]]) [[satrapies]] supplied cavalry and chariots to [[Xerxes the Great]]'s army. However, by this time, [[cavalry]] was far more effective and agile than the chariot, and the defeat of [[Darius III]] at the [[Battle of Gaugamela]] (331 BC), where the army of Alexander simply opened their lines and let the chariots pass and attacked them from behind, marked the end of the era of chariot warfare (barring the Seleucid and Pontic powers, India, China, and the Celtic peoples).