> 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.

> 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.