[Brooklyn Attitude]

Wheels make it easier to move things even if a man is pulling it. Even after horses were available and Indians saw whites using the wheel, they still used supported drags instead.

[hanamizu]

they still used supported drags instead.

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Wheels aren’t the easiest thing for Stone-Age people to construct. And the Indians didn’t have one of the greatest underrated inventions of all time—the horse collar. Until the evil Europeans invented the horse collar, horses could only pull relatively light loads. The horse collar allowed the horse to pull with all of its strength without choking itself.

Oxen were strong but slow. Horses could plow 2 to 3 times as much as an ox—after the horse collar was invented. Don’t thing the Indians picked up on the concept until they were permanently on the reservations.