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Chinese develop stirrup in about 300 BC
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Category
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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Warring States Period
-403
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Eastern Zhou Dynasty
-771
-256
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Inventions
-3800
2020
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