CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Pushing carts
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Making pottery
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Wagons
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Automobiles
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Detailed explanation-1: -The potter’s wheel is an example of an early mechanical invention: it can be traced back to the ancient Sumerians as early as 3, 250 B.C.E. (2). Early wheels were probably slow wheels; later fast wheels allowed potters to work more quickly and to create more uniform vessels.
Detailed explanation-2: -In pottery, a potter’s wheel is a mechanical device used in the shaping (known as throwing) of round ceramic ware. A potter’s wheel may occasionally be referred to as a “potter’s lathe".
Detailed explanation-3: -The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq), where the Sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood. It was only in 2000 BC that the discs began to be hollowed out to make a lighter wheel.