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Donkeys, onagers, and kungas were strong and durable, but not fast. They were not used for rapid maneuvers, but for transporting warriors (or armed elites) to the battlefield, directing attacks against slowly advancing enemy lines (like a rudimentary tank), ceremonies or demonstrations of power, especially in royal or religious contexts, and throwing archers or spears while moving, but their mobility was limited.

>inb4 REEEEEEEEEEE THEY DIDN'T HAVE REAL WAR CHARIOTS! WE WUZ KASSITES AND SHIET!

Copium to not accept that the Sumerians, without horses until 1500 BC, built a civilization before their Yamnaya cousins, who already had horses since 3500–3000, because the Neolithic Revolution was older in Mesopotamia/Levant than in Anatolia.

The source for Kassites having an IE connection of some kind is some wignat quack from 1930. The funniest thing about this isn't even that, assuming the IE in the Middle East were Sintashta-descended, then that means Sintashta got raped by the Middle Easterners. Mitanni arrived in a power vacuum and settle some ruins, withn a few centuries they are raped out of existence by Semites, hue. Kassites met some IE Sintashta tribes and genocided them before looting the remains. Hyksos have non-IE kings and are maternally descended from IE Sintashta.