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Originally Posted by MaDalton
i thought about adding that but on the other hand the wheel existed for a couple of thousand years before the other stuff and nothing really happened. but it was the steam machine (or engine) which started industrialisation in the 17th century
and also wars are an important factor, they seem to make people creative.
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The big step forward wasn't the wheel. It was the axle, or what ever they chose to use to fix it to a cart so it could spin.
The steam engine would of been useless without the discovery of metals and hot to smelt them.
My point is if you look at the information you see that there was no one thing that that made a real difference. They're all inter related. If there was one thing, it has to be the invention of writing, which relied on the invention of language. This made the inventions able to be shared.