WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stirrups are used to support a rider’s feet in riding and to aid in mounting. Stirrups probably originated in the Asian steppes about the 2nd century bc. They enormously increased the military value of the horse.

Detailed explanation-2: -The leather saddle first straddled a horse’s back in China perhaps as far back as the third century B.C. But the saddle was only one step toward transforming the use of cavalry as a means of waging war.

Detailed explanation-3: -The earliest evidence of a stirrup was excavated in India, during 2nd Century BC. It was a cornelian seal depicting a rider on a horse, his foot resting on a stirrup made of wood in a hook style L-shape format. Another image is that of a horse statue with stirrup from Japan during the Kofun period in the 6th century.

Detailed explanation-4: -The rounded top of each stirrup was made from a bent piece of mulberry wood, which was covered with gilded bronze sheets on the outer surfaces, and iron plates covered with lacquer on the inside, where Feng’s feet would have gone.