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From: Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 10:21:17 +0000
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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 03/11/2024 19:49, Peter Flass wrote:
>>> I’ve never understood why native Americans didn’t use the wheel.
>>
>> You kinda need a road to go with it.
>
> I was thinking this, too, but wagons were used extensively, if not
> invented, by the “Aryan” Yamnaya people from the eurasian steppes. They
> trekked in their wagons from Europe to China.
“Aryan” as a name, as best anyone can tell, only turns up with the later
Sintashta and Andronovo cultures (the latter being the truly vast spread
across Eurasia). But none of them were building roads, indeed.
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