CIVILIZATION
SUMERIAN
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Question
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bicycle
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wagon wheel
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car
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paper
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first wheels were not used for transportation. Evidence indicates they were created to serve as potter’s wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia-300 years before someone figured out to use them for chariots.
Detailed explanation-3: -"It is generally believed that chariots came into vogue in Mesopotamia around 3500–3000 BC. Called a battle-wagon, the Sumerians yoked wild asses to it as the horse had not been domesticated by then. Subseqently, they developed it into a military vehicle to transport the warrior and his weapons to the battlefield.