Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

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.

Maybe the
Incas, because mountain trackways aren’t to conducive to wheeled traffic,
but besides Chaco the Mayans and the Amazonian civilization had roads with
no wheels. I also don’t understand why there was no American bronze age
when they certainly used metals, including copper.

The chinese would kill inventors who threatened the need for people to do the work.
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