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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Native Americans in Mexico did invent the wheel, but only used them on toys as far as we can tell.

Even if they had attempted to scale them up and use them on carts they would not have been of much use on the grass prairies and savannahs or in the deep woods without draft animals like oxen and horses, which is probably why they used the travois, which is much more effective in high grass, marsh, and scrub.


10 posted on 03/01/2025 11:00:18 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustmilents offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Thanks. I did a lot more digging into the invention of the wheel and learned what you pointed out — it wasn’t much use in wet, marshy or forested places. You needed cultures that grew large enough cities to need to bulk-transport things like food to even have a need for the wheel.


13 posted on 03/01/2025 11:09:33 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole)
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