• Caveman@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I meant it more as in the context of subsaharan Africa not having the wheel until the 19th century. Wheels for transportation were pretty much useless until they got roads there.

    I see now I should have caveated my post with 5 qualifiers now.

    • theUwUhugger@lemmy.world
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      1. No you didn’t! If you meant that you would have said that as there is an titsy bitsy bit of a difference between a region of a continent to a time and the whole wide world until now!

      2. And still, thats a whole lot of bs!

      …The wheel was well known, with pottery wheels and water wheels used, and even wheeled transport in some regions like ancient Nubia and Ethiopia… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_wheel_in_Africa)