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Detailed explanation-1: -Wheels first appeared in ancient Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq, more than 5, 000 years ago. They were originally used by potters to help shape clay. Later, wheels were fitted to carts, which made moving objects around much easier.

Detailed explanation-2: -Mass-Produced Pottery Other ancient people made pottery by hand, but the Sumerians were the first to develop the turning wheel, a device which allowed them to mass-produce it, according to Reed Goodman, a doctoral candidate in the art and archaeology of the Mediterranean at the University of Pennsylvania.