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Problem description:1Origin of horses. 2.A nation on horseback.

Analysis: Horses originated from the Americas, and in ancient times, they crossed the Bering Strait (when it dried up) to Asia, and spread to the Eastern Hemisphere, evolving into three types of horses, zebras and donkeys in Eurasia and Africa.

Ethnic groups on horseback" - Mongolian.

The Mongolian people are a people with a long history and a lot of legends. For thousands of years, the industrious and brave Mongolian people have been nomadic herds, living in the vast land from the Great Wall in the south, to the desert in the north, to the Xing'an Mountains in the east, and to the Helan Mountains in the west. Whenever her name is mentioned, people will think of the ancient ballad of "the sky is firm, the wild is vast, the wind blows the grass and sees the cattle and sheep", and the vast grassland with blue sky and white clouds, green wild saffron, flocks of sheep, and fragrant meat and milk will appear in front of them, and this "nation on horseback" once commanded the storm, crisscrossed Europe and Asia, fought bravely and well, and swallowed mountains and rivers!

Mongolians are one of the ethnic minorities with a large Chinese population and a wide distribution. According to the 1990 national census, the current population is more than 4.8 million. They mainly live in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the rest are mostly distributed in Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Henan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Beijing, Yunnan and other places.

Mongolians have their own language and script. The Mongolian language belongs to the Mongolian language family of the Altaic language family. It is divided into three dialects: Inner Mongolia, Oirat, Balhu-Buryat (divided into central, western and northeastern dialects according to regions).

Mongolian is a pinyin script that was first created in the era of Genghis Khan. The current Mongolian script has 29 letters, of which 5 are for vowels and 24 are for consonants. When spelling, the words are used as a unit to connect the book up and down, and the lines are from left to right.

The Mongols originated in the area on the east bank of the Wangjian River (now the Erguna River) in ancient times. "Menggu" is the earliest Chinese translation of the word "Mongolia", which was first seen in the Tang Dynasty. "Mongolia" was originally just the name of one of the tribes of Mongolia.

At the beginning of the 13th century, the Mongol tribe headed by Genghis Khan unified the Mongolian regions and gradually formed a new ethnic community. "Mongolia" has changed from the original tribal name to a national name. Huaibei.

The Mongolian people are industrious, intelligent, and open-minded, good at learning, and brave in exploration. In the course of long-term historical development, they have constantly summed up various practical experiences in production and life, and at the same time have studied, absorbed, and learned from the outstanding cultural achievements of other nationalities at home and abroad, gradually understood, mastered, and accumulated a large amount of natural and social science knowledge, produced many inventions and creations, and made many historical, literary, and artistic achievements, and emerged a large number of scientists, historians, writers, and artists, making important contributions to enriching and enriching the motherland's glorious treasury of science and technology and culture.

The horse has a well-proportioned physique, long limbs, a well-developed third toe, and a hoof.

Second, the four toes are degenerated, and only the metacarpal bones and metatarsal bones remain. The limbs are highly specialized, the humerus and femur are short, the radius and tibia are long, and the ulna and fibula are retracted. The third toe is developed, the metacarpal bone is very long, while the toe (phalangeal) bone is shorter, single-hoofed.

high crown of buccal teeth; The enamel layer of the upper molars is finely folded.

Prefers to live in groups and usually consists of a stallion, several mares, and their offspring. Each population has a well-defined range of movement and migrates at a rate of 5-10 km per day. Wild horses feed on the desert sage, saxon, reeds, red willows, etc., and in winter they can cut through the snow to forage for dead grass.

Individuals in the group often clean each other after eating**, gently licking each other's armor, shoulders, dorsal sides, buttocks, etc. Sometimes self-care is also done, such as rolling, self-brushing, and repelling mosquitoes and flies. Wild horses communicate with the help of sounds, smells, and behaviors such as pursing their ears, plowing the ground, and gnawing.

Horses, herbivorous domestic animals. It was tamed by humans 4,000 years ago. In ancient times, horses were the main driving force for agricultural production, transportation, and military activities.

With the development of productive forces, the improvement of scientific and technological level, the invention and wide application of power machinery, horses play less and less role in real life, horses are mainly used for equestrian sports and the production of dairy meat, and the amount of feeding has been greatly reduced. However, in some developing countries and regions, horses are still mainly used for service and are an important part of the force**.

Chinese name: 马 Foreign name: horse 二名法: equus caballus

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordates Subphylum: Vertebrates.

Class: Mammals Subclass: Mammals: Odd hoofs.

Family: Equus Genus: Horse.