Chinese develop stirrup in about 300 BC

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Invention

Place

China

Date

-300

Reference

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"The stirrup . . . enabled the horseman to become a better archer and swordsman." [1001 Inventions] Stirrups did not reach the West until about 700 AD. [Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare, p. 377]

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