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Recorder microphone action. The equine engine that helps power the rest of the world is returning to the Americas.

Before becoming extinct thousands of years ago, horses roamed those continents. Now they're back, thanks to

Christopher Columbus. If the indigenous peoples saw trouble ahead from the two-legged

incomers, they were quick to recognize the positive

potential of those on four.

Endeveering to understand history in hopes of eliminating the future.

I'm Neil Oliver and this is travelled with you to Constantinople as the world's mat was being

redrawn in blood and misery. Where are we this week? We're shifting our gaze right across the globe.

It's 1493 and we're traveling to the Americas as horses are being reintroduced. This would

prove to be a defining moment in the continent's development and over the next few centuries horses would come to shape and define both North and South America. It's a story that affects every part of North and South America and it kicks

off well with the arrival of the Spanish and the Portuguese and the rest of the Europeans.

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