Stirrup
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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.
Sources
The Earth and Its Peoples A Global History, Bulliet et al, 2005.