Transport & space · c. 3,000 BCE

Ox-drawn wagon

Solid-wheeled carts pulled by oxen turn farms and towns into a connected economy.

Four-wheeled wagons with solid wooden wheels spread across Eurasia in the 4th and 3rd millennia BCE. Oxen could pull far more on wheels than on sledges, so harvests, trade goods and building stone could move overland. Wagon burials on the steppe show how prized these vehicles were.

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