From there they moved to China around the year 300, where, due to the colder climate of the area, they began to tie shoes around the foot, and not just over the toe.
[1] From China the use of the stirrup spread to the Mongol nomads of Central Asia, Korea and Japan.
C., the Avars of Pannonia had been pushed west from the steppes by the Turks, and introduced the stirrup into Europe.
This improved the effectiveness of his mounted troops to such an extent that it facilitated the defeat of the classical model of the Roman legion, at the Battle of Adrianople (378), which caused an unprecedented military crisis.
The stirrup, which allowed the rider to fight comfortably and maximized the impact of the charge, had practically retired the best army in history, beginning a new era in Europe: that of the cavalry corps that would dominate the medieval battlefields for more than a thousand years.