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[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I meant it more as in the context of subsaharan Africa not having the wheel until the 19th century. Wheels for transportation were pretty much useless until they got roads there.

I see now I should have caveated my post with 5 qualifiers now.

[–] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago
  1. No you didn’t! If you meant that you would have said that as there is an titsy bitsy bit of a difference between a region of a continent to a time and the whole wide world until now!

  2. And still, thats a whole lot of bs!

…The wheel was well known, with pottery wheels and water wheels used, and even wheeled transport in some regions like ancient Nubia and Ethiopia… (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_wheel_in_Africa)