How did the first sledge made
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From 7000 BC
The sledge
The wagon
Horse and chariot
6th century BC - 15th century AD
16th - 18th century
19th century
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The sledge: 7000-4000 BC
From the beginning of human history people have dragged any load too heavy to be carried. But large objects are often of awkward shape and texture, liable to snag on any roughness in the ground. The natural solution is to move them on a platform with smooth runners - a sledge.
Wooden sledges are first known, by at least 7000 BC, among communities living by hunting and fishing in northern Europe, on the fringes of the Arctic. It is possible that they use dogs to pull them, but the technological advance is valuable even without animal power. On icy ground a man can move a heavy load on a sledge with relatively little effort.
The domestication of cattle, and more particularly the discovery that a castrated bull becomes the docile but very powerful ox, means that humans can transport heavier loads than before. This is done at first on sledges, which slither adequately over the dry grass of the steppes of southern Russia and on the parched earth of Mesopotamia. In both regions ox-drawn sledges are in use by the 4th millennium BC.
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From 7000 BC
The sledge
The wagon
Horse and chariot
6th century BC - 15th century AD
16th - 18th century
19th century
To be completed
The sledge: 7000-4000 BC
From the beginning of human history people have dragged any load too heavy to be carried. But large objects are often of awkward shape and texture, liable to snag on any roughness in the ground. The natural solution is to move them on a platform with smooth runners - a sledge.
Wooden sledges are first known, by at least 7000 BC, among communities living by hunting and fishing in northern Europe, on the fringes of the Arctic. It is possible that they use dogs to pull them, but the technological advance is valuable even without animal power. On icy ground a man can move a heavy load on a sledge with relatively little effort.
The domestication of cattle, and more particularly the discovery that a castrated bull becomes the docile but very powerful ox, means that humans can transport heavier loads than before. This is done at first on sledges, which slither adequately over the dry grass of the steppes of southern Russia and on the parched earth of Mesopotamia. In both regions ox-drawn sledges are in use by the 4th millennium BC.
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