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how would the european history change (if at all) if Wheelbarrows became a regular transportation vehicle at some point just after the WRE collapse? ... it is from what i can read, suggest that Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire had at least some kind of wheelbarrows (inventories from the temple Eleusis and apocryphal stories about Emperor Elagabalus, both suggest that such things existed).

For one carts wouldn't be as much in demand, hence local settlements might not be that interested in maintaining wide roads when smaller pathways would be enough ... and while there would probably still exist some kind of trade network in the dark middle ages, the road system would probably not be as useable for moving armies
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