What if the wheel had never been invented? How far could technology have advanced without it? What can be said descriptively about how society would have been affected by the lack?
What if the wheel had never been invented? How far could technology have advanced without it? What can be said descriptively about how society would have been affected by the lack?
How far could technology have advanced without it?
Sumerians weren't Arabs. They weren't even Semites.Technology wouldn't have gone much of anywhere for the most part were it not for those inventive little Arabs calling themselves the 'Sumerians'.
Technology wouldn't have gone much of anywhere for the most part were it not for those inventive little Arabs calling themselves the 'Sumerians'.
There's only one thing that can stand in the way of something this simple. Religion. Just make it so the first wheel rolls over someone's big toe and then it's relegated to witchcraft and evil magic. Now clearly, this can't be anything universal, not immediately, but over time, given the right circumstances, everyone will come to regard the wheel as taboo.
There's only one thing that can stand in the way of something this simple. Religion. Just make it so the first wheel rolls over someone's big toe and then it's relegated to witchcraft and evil magic. Now clearly, this can't be anything universal, not immediately, but over time, given the right circumstances, everyone will come to regard the wheel as taboo.
..... no. And..... no.
Until someone who worships a different God, is somewhat pragmatic about religion or just dosen't care where he has to go in his quest for power creates wheeled carts to have a military advantage.
Another thought: Having the Potter's Wheel means that wheeled carts are pretty much inevitable. Stopping the potters wheel as well is probably not going to work out well.
Wow folks. It's not like I was being that serious about it. My comment was totally intended to be funny, not to advocate a religious perspective. (I'm Jewish, by the way) Really, there's no non-ASB way to avoid making the wheel.That didn't make any sense.
At all.
I'm guessing you're an atheist.
Wow folks. It's not like I was being that serious about it. My comment was totally intended to be funny, not to advocate a religious perspective. (I'm Jewish, by the way) Really, there's no non-ASB way to avoid making the wheel.
Really, there's no non-ASB way to avoid making the wheel.