Posted: Nov 11, 2018 2:13 pm
The current historical consensus is that, "The first wheelbarrow in Europe appeared sometime between 1170 and 1250."
Whereas the usage of chariots was already prevalent much earlier, historians say that there's evidence of chariots/wheeled carts use as early as 4th millenium BC when the humans first domesticated horses.
So why did it take so long (5000 years!) for people who already knew how to use wheeled carriages to invent the wheelbarrow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot
Whereas the usage of chariots was already prevalent much earlier, historians say that there's evidence of chariots/wheeled carts use as early as 4th millenium BC when the humans first domesticated horses.
So why did it take so long (5000 years!) for people who already knew how to use wheeled carriages to invent the wheelbarrow?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheelbarrow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot