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Latest revision as of 16:55, August 24, 2016
A stirrup is a device for securing a horseman's feet, thus enabling him to wield weapons more effectively. This had a great impact on European warfare. The first evidence for the use of stirrups is among the Kushan people of northern Afghanistan in the first century A.D.
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The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al., 2005.