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> Stirrups are cool, no doubt, but far from a secret to the mongols success. You don't realize how huge an impact stirrups had to horseriding and by extension,
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
> Stirrups are cool, no doubt, but far from a secret to the mongols success.
You don't realize how huge an impact stirrups had to horseriding and by extension, civilization.
- genghizkhan 5y agoTheir response was about how it wasn’t the secret to mongol success specifically. The mongols had the double recurved bow and the advantage of a fully nomadic pastoral society in which all adult males were trained to be warriors. That and Genghis Khan’s decimal system is what transformed them into a fearsome conquering machine.
- qwytw 5y agoTrue, but stirrups very introduced into Europe by the Avars hundreds of years before the Mongols.
- CRConrad 5y ago> You don't realize how huge an impact stirrups had to horseriding and by extension, civilization. Yeah, but in all likelihood they weren't a mongol invention. The alans and avars probably had them five hundred years earlier, of perhaps the huns beofre them.