Why Did Africans Never Invent the Wheel?

[Coyote]

Looks like the Blacks did not use wheels however the browns used them. Browns are not blacks.

It has nothing to do with color. The Inca, Mayans and Aztecs also never used the wheel and like much of sub-Saharan Africa, this could be because they lacked draft animals or because they already efficient tools on hand and there would be no pressure to change.

 

[Invisibleflash]

Early humans left Africa (so they think now) 60K to 90K years ago. They became Europeans, Asians, Middle-Easterners, Australians, Americans. This after traveling thousands of miles away from Africa and adapting to new climates, new lands, new waters.

Africans, staying in place for those thousands of years, never invented the wheel. When European explorers went to the interior of Africa, they found no wheels, and little to no advancement beyond the Stone Age.

Why?

They don't need big brains...they just need to be tough.

 

[Kruska]

Well, neither did the white man. It was invented by the Sumerians around 3500 BC. They are asking the same question about white folks.

By "White Man" I presume you are referring to EUROPEANS. Archeological evidence in e.g. the Taklamakan Desert (Tarim Basin mummies) and DNA analysis - shows that EUROPEAN people where already residing in that area in 4000-5000 B.C. It is also heavily discussed since more then a century, that an initial or several mainstream migrations from Central Asia took place from around 5000-4000 B.C. towards the Mesopotamian area and Europe.

The "wheel as such", was already in use by neolithic civilizations living in Europe around 3000 B.C.
Latest with the onset of the Celtic civilization in Europe - starting around 1500 B.C. chariots came into use, and that was a 1000 years before the Roman conquest.

The chariot wheel comes in with the "military conquest" ambitions of civilizations (who happen to develop/thrive in plains with river deltas and had horses to domesticate) and not mountainous or forested/jungle like areas - followed by constructing roads to transport their armies faster and more efficiently.

The Negros never had an all dominating/outstanding civilization such as e.g. the Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese-Han or Celts - that could overpower and absorb other multiple kingdoms or nations. The kingdoms of e.g. Dahomey or that of the Ashanti (had wheels) but never had the power (nor ambition?) to go onto a thousands of km stretching Sub-Saharan African conquest. Neither did the Negros have horses, that could be domesticated - same goes for the native America civilizations.

It is the nonexistent mixing of different civilizations and cultures via a constant migration into Sub-Saharan Africa or Africa itself - that prevented/hindered Negros from advancing as rapidly as e.g. the Mesopotamian or Egyptian cultures.

Therefore when the Arabs from around 700 A.D. and the Europeans from around 1500 A.D. arrived/ventured into sub-Saharan Africa - the known Negro cultures were at best on the level of Bronze-age cultures - aka at average 3000 years behind the European and Arab cultures of the 15th century.

 

[Magnus]

By "White Man" I presume you are referring to EUROPEANS. Archeological evidence in e.g. the Taklamakan Desert (Tarim Basin mummies) and DNA analysis - shows that EUROPEAN people where already residing in that area in 4000-5000 B.C. It is also heavily discussed since more then a century, that an initial or several mainstream migrations from Central Asia took place from around 5000-4000 B.C. towards the Mesopotamian area and Europe.

The "wheel as such", was already in use by neolithic civilizations living in Europe around 3000 B.C.
Latest with the onset of the Celtic civilization in Europe - starting around 1500 B.C. chariots came into use, and that was a 1000 years before the Roman conquest.

The chariot wheel comes in with the "military conquest" ambitions of civilizations (who happen to develop/thrive in plains with river deltas and had horses to domesticate) and not mountainous or forested/jungle like areas - followed by constructing roads to transport their armies faster and more efficiently.

The Negros never had an all dominating/outstanding civilization such as e.g. the Babylonians, Egyptians, Chinese-Han or Celts - that could overpower and absorb other multiple kingdoms or nations. The kingdoms of e.g. Dahomey or that of the Ashanti (had wheels) but never had the power (nor ambition?) to go onto a thousands of km stretching Sub-Saharan African conquest. Neither did the Negros have horses, that could be domesticated - same goes for the native America civilizations.

It is the nonexistent mixing of different civilizations and cultures via a constant migration into Sub-Saharan Africa or Africa itself - that prevented/hindered Negros from advancing as rapidly as e.g. the Mesopotamian or Egyptian cultures.

Therefore when the Arabs from around 700 A.D. and the Europeans from around 1500 A.D. arrived/ventured into sub-Saharan Africa - the known Negro cultures were at best on the level of Bronze-age cultures - aka at average 3000 years behind the European and Arab cultures of the 15th century.

LOL So many words. So many errors.

First the Tarim Basin mummies were not white. Second they were from the Bronze Age about 1200 BC. While the Sumerians lived about 5000 to 4000 BC making them much older.

So yes, my point still stands. So, take your racist bullshit and stick it you-know-where. Now, fuck off.

 

[DudleySmith]

Wheels don't require draft animlas to be useful. Carts are useful when toted by people as well, no horses or oxen needed. Settled areas would have lots of packed earth or gravel enough to make carts viable anywhere.

Large populations and slave economies tend to stiffle innovation of labor saving machines. The Chinese invented a lot of stuff but never expanded or improved a lot of it, as an example.

People have been building roads for a long time, with or without wheels. The Central and South American civs built long ones, and over tough jungle and mountainous terrain.

 

[fncceo]

Why Did Africans Never Invent the Wheel​

It took several centuries to perfect spinning rim technology

 

[Meathead]

Ahhh, yes, the bleating baby resorts to the call of racism when it is nothing of the sort. It is merely a statement of fact. Facts that hurt your tiny little head.

Here's the thing, moron. Inuit are North Americans. They bear little resemblance to the native Americans further south. The geography of Africa is so extreme that there was NO real interaction between sub Saharan Africa and the Mediterranean coastal kingdoms. There simply was none. That is a fact.

And we know facts hurt your head.

The wheel spread through diffusion. Only the Nile gave access to diffusion which is why the only black Africans who had wheels were along the Nile.

The Sahara made the wheel useless since there were no roads at the time and this diffusion was not possible to the sub-Sahara.

Blacks invented precious little on their own. Hell, they couldn't master the sea to find islands practically spitting distance from the continent, Madagascar was discovered by the Polynesians who came from half the world away. the rest were discovered by the Portuguese.

 

[surada]

The wheel spread through diffusion. Only the Nile gave access to diffusion which is why the only black Africans who had wheels were along the Nile.

The Sahara made the wheel useless since there were no roads at the time and this diffusion was not possible to the sub-Sahara.

Blacks invented precious little on their own. Hell, they couldn't master the sea to find islands practically spitting distance from the continent, Madagascar was discovered by the Polynesians who came from half the world away. the rest were discovered by the Portuguese.

Wheels were used all over Africa 3000 years ago.

 

[Libby von H]

Early humans left Africa (so they think now) 60K to 90K years ago. They became Europeans, Asians, Middle-Easterners, Australians, Americans. This after traveling thousands of miles away from Africa and adapting to new climates, new lands, new waters.

Africans, staying in place for those thousands of years, never invented the wheel. When European explorers went to the interior of Africa, they found no wheels, and little to no advancement beyond the Stone Age.

Why?

Are you are doing is criticizing others for not living as you think they should liv.e
Consider
it took until Gutenbergy for educated industrious monks to produce books !!!
Eyeglasses same thing
Bible didn't have chapters and verses mid 1500's

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Yes, such infrastructure has been a great gift to the people of Africa.

You are trying so hard to get attention.

 

[ThirdTerm]

Blacks invented precious little on their own. Hell, they couldn't master the sea to find islands practically spitting distance from the continent, Madagascar was discovered by the Polynesians who came from half the world away. the rest were discovered by the Portuguese.

Asian migrants from Borneo beat Southern Bantus by 1,000 years. I wonder why they did not "discover" Australia located much closer to Borneo with their great navigation skills.

Our results indicate that across the entire country all Malagasy individuals share recent Austronesian and Bantu ancestry (Fig. 6). We identified a recent split of the proto-Malagasy population from southern African Bantus around 1,500 y BP and an older split from south Borneo between 3,000 and 2,000 y BP. This result suggests that Indonesians populations may have arrived on Madagascar before African populations.

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[Kruska]

LOL So many words. So many errors.

LOL, so little words. So many wrong statements.

First the Tarim Basin mummies were not white. Second they were from the Bronze Age about 1200 BC. While the Sumerians lived about 5000 to 4000 BC making them much older.

Those Europeans living around the Taklamakan vicinity existed already beyond 5000-4000 B.C. The oldest Tarim Basin mummies are dated to around 2100 B.C.

Scientists concluded that the mummies were descendants of Ancient North Eurasians, a relatively small group of ancient hunter-gatherers who migrated to Central Asia from West Asia and who have genetic links to modern Europeans and Native Americans.

New Research Reveals Surprising Origins of Millennia-Old Mummies Found in China

Once thought to be migrants from West Asia, the deceased were actually direct descendants of a local Ice Age population, DNA analysis suggests

www.smithsonianmag.com

But new DNA evidence published in the journal Nature suggests the so-called Tarim mummies actually descended directly from a population that lived in the region during the Ice Age.!!
“We found strong evidence that they actually represent a highly genetically isolated local population,” study co-author Christina Warinner, an anthropologist at Harvard University, tells CNN’s Katie Hunt.

The Egyptian culture (Pyramids) only got started at around 2500 B.C. - whilst their predecessors already lived there in 5000 B.C. the same applies to the e.g. Babylonian culture/civilization.

Who told you that Europeans some 6000 years ago, were all WHITE, blonde and blue eyed???

So yes, my point still stands. So, take your racist bullshit and stick it you-know-where. Now, fuck off.

Are you a racist Negro? aka a cousin of IM2 ?

 

[Captain John Baron]

Early humans left Africa (so they think now) 60K to 90K years ago. They became Europeans, Asians, Middle-Easterners, Australians, Americans. This after traveling thousands of miles away from Africa and adapting to new climates, new lands, new waters.

Africans, staying in place for those thousands of years, never invented the wheel. When European explorers went to the interior of Africa, they found no wheels, and little to no advancement beyond the Stone Age.

Why?

They were too busy populating the planet?

 

[surada]

Early humans left Africa (so they think now) 60K to 90K years ago. They became Europeans, Asians, Middle-Easterners, Australians, Americans. This after traveling thousands of miles away from Africa and adapting to new climates, new lands, new waters.

Africans, staying in place for those thousands of years, never invented the wheel. When European explorers went to the interior of Africa, they found no wheels, and little to no advancement beyond the Stone Age.

Why?

That's not true. They used wheels for grinding and raising water for irrigation. In North Africa they had carts and chariots.

 

[surada]

Just look at the inner cities that are Democrat Run, No one is inventing anything, they are only destroying things and each other. Nothing has changed with savage behavior.

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History of the wheel in Africa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Uses. The wheel was given various technical applications in Africa, such as a water wheel, a potter's wheel, and an animal-drawn wheeled transport of various types — carts, carriages, chariots, and wagons.

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia › wiki
History of the wheel in Africa - Wikipedia

 

[surada]

You seriously think roads came before wheels?

History of the wheel in Africa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

History of the wheel in Africa - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Already debunked.

I guess the white supremacists will have to fond a new talking point.

 

[Lumpy 1]

I’m thinking the first guy to be chased down a hill by a rolling log or rock figured out what a wheel was.. .. or didn’t..

 

[surada]

Already debunked.

I guess the white supremacists will have to fond a new talking point.

They had the wheel.

The wheel was given various technical applications in Africa, such as a water wheel, a potter's wheel, and an animal-drawn wheeled transport of various types — carts, carriages, chariots, and wagons.

 

[Lumpy 1]

Already debunked.

I guess the white supremacists will have to fond a new talking point.

Democrat slavery and supremacist guilt has no problem coming up with new talking points.