
Episode 10: Early Indo-European Migrations
The History of English Podcast
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The History of the Wheeled Wagon
No one knows exactly when the first wheel or wheeled vehicle was discovered. Around four thousand b c, potters were using a potter's wheel to make pottery and clay vessels in sumaria. And around 36 hundred b c, the first pictures and drawings of wheeled vehicles began to appear in sumeria. The archaeological records confirm that wheeled vehicles were in use on the uracian steps by a couple of centuries later. These herders could now move indefiitely, and they could live on the steps for months at a time.
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