The quote wasn't that "no civilization existed without horses", it was that the horse was "decisive in shaping human history".
When you consider what happened to advanced civilizations like the Aztec and Inca when they interfaced with horseborne civilizations, the point makes sense, and isn't doing so by marginalizing people who didn't have horses.
I said no such thing.
I said that a great number of civilization and cultures, that lasted for many centuries, developed without ever using horses, and that therefore, the horse cannot be considered to define all of human civilization.
For a non-Western chunk of data, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_in_East_Asian_warfare
If I am misrepresenting your political philosophy, then you should say specifically what it is.
What a Western-centric view.
Entire human civilizations developed for centuries or millennia, without horses -- they really don't conform to the phases of "pre-horse, horse and post-horse" because they were never "horse".
It's possible (although ill-conceived and wrong) to argue that there is no history and no culture outside of Western civilization; but then one should make an argument about it, not simply ignoring immense parts of the human adventure.