Animals That Made History

The Conquest of America - The Horse (1x3)

Air date: Feb 03, 2010

The horse originally came from America and from there it began its triumphal march into the world - to Asia, Europe and Africa. But in America of all places it died out at the end of the Ice Age. Not until 1519 did sixteen horses return there: in the belly of the ship of Hernando Cortez, the Spanish conqueror.