>Macedonians invent a longer stick, conquer known world >Mongols

>>3049454
Except stirrups had been invented and spread across all of Eurasia hundreds of years before the mongol empire?

>>3049454
I thought the franks invented the stirrup, hence why mongols got BTFO by the eternal hun

>>3049495
Stirrups were introduced by the huns.

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>>3049454
>>Mongols invent foot straps for horses, conquer known world

More like: Mongols happen to have the right organizational tools to run a total war, and a continental empire, and a modern battlefield. It was all in the tribal structure. Earlier steppe people had the same kind of horse and arrow advantages. Mongols had happened on a brilliant bureaucracy.

>>3049495
>We wuz inventorz and sheit
Stirrup was first made in india, you fucking nigger.

>>3049454
>Americans invent scary bomb thingy
>Actually succeed in conquering the world

How do you even make a wood pole as long as a sarrissa? You'd have to find a tall straight tree and cut one unbroken cylinder from its trunk.

>>3053161
It was made of 2 shafts fitted together with a tube.

>>3051100
They were first invented in China. They started off with just one stirrup to aid in mounting and dismounting before figuring out that it would be better to have two.

>>3051100
>t. Raj Shivajeet Chandragupta Chakraborty Nehru Gandhi

>>3053412
That actually sounds like it would take TECHNOLOGY to pull off. IDK. Were all the metal bits bronze? I wonder how heavy duty the middle portion had to be to properly secure the two shafts such that they don't simply buckle when they impact something.