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100% of blacks are poor and they all need to join gangs and murder each other.

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Some Negro once said in my school that her ancestors didn't invent the wheel because they didn't have horses like the Europeans.  

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That's actually not a very bad excuse, you know.

Remember, the pre-Columbian Americans had relatively advanced and developed societies (more or less on the level of 3rd millenium BC Mesopotamia with some differences - such as Mesoamerica having larger and more developed urban centers, but Mesopotamia having bronze working), and unlike them, they didn't invent the wheel. Why? Without horses, donkeys, and the like, how much use would a wheel even have?

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100% of blacks are poor and they all need to join gangs and murder each other.

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wow.......

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    Some Negro once said in my school that her ancestors didn't invent the wheel because they didn't have horses like the Europeans.  

That's actually not a very bad excuse, you know.

Remember, the pre-Columbian Americans had relatively advanced and developed societies (more or less on the level of 3rd millenium BC Mesopotamia with some differences - such as Mesoamerica having larger and more developed urban centers, but Mesopotamia having bronze working), and unlike them, they didn't invent the wheel. Why? Without horses, donkeys, and the like, how much use would a wheel even have?

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These guys have an idea:

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And notice their modern wheels.

It wouldn't be so easy with stone or wooden wheels, which is what they used 5000 years ago.  It's about as easy as dragging it on a big sled, which is what the Egyptians did to haul all the big blocks of limestone and stuff to their pyramid sites.

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And notice their modern wheels.

It wouldn't be so easy with stone or wooden wheels, which is what they used 5000 years ago.  It's about as easy as dragging it on a big sled, which is what the Egyptians did to haul all the big blocks of limestone and stuff to their pyramid sites.

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And didn't Africans have types of cattle?
They lick the menstrual juices of cattle for religious purposes nowadays.

Where did they come from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_buffalo

A tribe in East Africa worships cattle.

Right now there are 20 million cattle in Africa (Not including South Africa).

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Egyptians had wheels.

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Where did I say that they did not?

They had wheels, but their wheels weren't useful for dragging large things like blocks of limestone because they were made of stone or wood, and those types of wheels tend to not be very smooth.  As a result, when you're moving anything large with those wheels, it'll get stuck on a spot where the wheel isn't smooth and you'll have to really force it to keep it going.

It was simpler to just drag it with a sled.  And that's exactly what the Egyptians did with heavy things like limestone.

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And didn't Africans have types of cattle?

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Parts of Africa did, but they were pretty rare.  Cattle was hardly common place in Sub-Saharan Africa until recently.  As a result, without the prevalence of cattle, there wasn't much use for a wheel.

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A tribe in East Africa worships cattle.

Right now there are 20 million cattle in Africa (Not including South Africa).

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Why are you talking about the present when the discussion is obviously on Africa's past?

Cattle has always been imported into Africa, most likely at varying levels over time.  You'd probably see things like cattle and the wheel common in places in Sub-Saharan Africa like on the Red Sea coast, but in the interior of Africa, they weren't nearly so common, and hence why they never developed a wheel.

Why would anybody invent something that wasn't totally useful for them?

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Why would anybody invent something that wasn't totally useful for them?

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Much of what they did not invent was actually useful, such as systems of measurement, written language, and much more.

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Yet you're looking at it all in the long run, all in hindsight.

Nobody invents something that is not immediately useful to them.  What would be the point if I invested in anything and got no returns?