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Many modern scholars suggest that the first potter's wheel was first developed by the ancient Sumerians in Mesopotamia. [3] A stone potter's wheel found at the Sumerian city of Ur in modern-day Iraq has been dated to about 3129 BC, [4] but fragments of wheel-thrown pottery of an even earlier date have been recovered in the same area. [4]
The Sumerians invented the wheel in the fourth millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia—present-day Iraq. In this invention, rotating axles were inserted into wooden solid discs. They began hollowing ...
The wheel initially took the form of the potter's wheel. The new concept led to wheeled vehicles and mill wheels. The Sumerians' cuneiform script is the oldest (or second oldest after the Egyptian hieroglyphs) which has been deciphered (the status of even older inscriptions such as the Jiahu symbols and Tartaria tablets is
3500–2340 BC – Sumer: wheeled carts, potter's wheel, White Temple ziggurat, bronze tools and weapons. [2] First to Fourth dynasty of Kish in Mesopotamia. Sumerian temple of Janna at Eridu erected. Temple at Al-Ubaid and tomb of Mes-Kalam-Dug built near Ur, Chaldea. 3000 BC – Tin is in use in Mesopotamia soon after this time. [3] [page needed]
In any case, the wheel spread extremely rapidly and enabled the creation of vehicles that enabled much easier transport of much larger loads. There were certainly chariots in southern Mesopotamia at the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC. Their wheels were solid blocks; spokes were not invented until c. 2000 BC.
The history of Sumer spans through the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BCE.
Mesopotamia [a] is a historical ... including the invention of the wheel, the planting of the first cereal crops, the development of cursive script, mathematics ...
It wasn’t a cohesive empire — Mesopotamia included the Sumerians, Persians, Babylonians, Assyrians and Akkadians — but it laid the foundation for the empires that would follow and pretty ...