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Old 06-17-2012, 04:24 AM  
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham View Post
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.
i didnt mention the wheel.

the point was how we achieved way more in the last 100 or 200 years than in 10,000 years before.

and everything you say existed already thousands of years without that effect that industrialisation had. which was basically started by inventing the steam engine
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