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If you think about it, without horses and donkeys, other animals of burden would be much more desired.
We wouldn't ride an oxen into battle, but the cow would certainly have a much higher role in society.
Which also leads me to believe that countries with access to elephants would have a superior military, Indian Kingdoms, Bengal, the Burmese Kingdoms, Thailand, Vietnam would've focused their efforts on elephants instead of the mixed approach of horse and elephant cavalry.
This would've been tremendous advantage against the surrounding countries, the indians would've probably advanced up to the caspian sea, the chinese south could have fallen unless the Chink adopted elephant breeding.