>Surely, someone would have eventually invented the stirrup, given ridable horses. Perhaps, though the stirrup as we think of it shows up a lot later than hors

>Surely, someone would have eventually invented the stirrup, given ridable horses. Perhaps, though the stirrup as we think of it shows up a lot later than horseriding does. Although the stirrup seems obvious at first glance, it requires a number of advances in saddles to support, or at least to take full advantage of them. That said, as the article points out, you don't need stirrups to have cavalry, or even heavy cavalry.