The Invention Of The Wheel And The Neolithic Revolution

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Technological innovations led to improvements in agricultural production, trade, and transportation. One technological innovation that proves this is the invention of the wheel. We don’t know who made the first wheel, we just know that the oldest wheel ever found was found in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be 5,500 years old(inventors.about.com). The wheel helped in agriculture by allowing the creation of the wheeled plow, which enabled farmers to dig under the surface of the soil in order to make strip fields. The way that the invention of the wheel helped transportation and trade in the Neolithic Revolution was that if anybody had to bring a heavy object or anything they wanted to trade from Point A to Point B, they could just put

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