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Why Wasn’t the Wheel Invented Sooner? (Encore)

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The History of the Wheel

The wheel is such a simple fundamental invention. It seems like it's something that would have been around since before the rise of civilization. The earliest wheels which appear in the archaeological records show up around the year 4000 to 3500 BC in Samaria and Mesopotamia. That doesn't date the wheel to the Stone Age or the Paleolithic, but rather to the Bronze Age.

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