WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Stirrups have also been found in Goguryeo tombs dating to the 4th and 5th centuries AD, but these do not contain any specific date. The stirrup appears to have been in widespread use across China by 477 AD. The appearance of the stirrup in China coincided with the rise of heavily armoured cavalry in the region.

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: -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-4: -The saddle was invented at least as early as 800 BCE, yet the first proper stirrup probably came about roughly 1, 000 years later, around 200-300 CE.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Norse who settled in Northern France introduced the use of stirrup to France and it Charles Martel used stirrups during the Battle of Tours 732. It was around the 10th century that stirrups were introduced to England via the Viking raids led by Cnut the Great.