>Invented by China in the 3rd century >Widely adopted by steppe nomads over the 4th and early 5th centuries >spread to Europe by the Avar migration in the 6th century >Byzantines began adoption almost immediately during the late 6th/early 7th centuries >spread to Western Europe in the 8th century by the Carolingians >British Isles only adopted them later during the 10th/11th centuries after being spread there by the Vikings
>>18630979>people start riding horses in like ~1200 BC>it took 1000+500 years for them to come up with somewhere to put their feetMaybe people in the ancient world were just retarded.
>>18631016Its hard to make
Retvrn to tradition.
>>18631016For there to be stirrups, you needed somewhere to put said footrests first (i,e. a saddle). Thing is fixed hard saddles weren't invented in the earliest days of mounted riding.
