But on the flip side, the ah, indigenous Native American Injuns of the Americas didn’t have no wheel when the filthy European invaders came. They had rocks, they had hills, but they never put it all together. (of course, for my money, the tricky part about “the wheel” is actually “the axle”.
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Actually it seems like I remember reading that the Mayans/Incas? had toy carts with wheels that the children played with, but never expanded on them.
Real use of the wheel was linked with the development of draft animals. Geography may have had a hand in it as well.
Yeah, that sounds right. In the teeming brain I seem to find the memory of a picture.