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The Case of the missing inventions.

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kjsimons
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06-16-2005 11:56 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by jar
06-16-2005 11:36 AM

Jar, have you ever read "Guns, Germs, & Steel" by Jared Diamond. His book answers your third question about draught animals. It appears you can only domesticate animals that have the ability to be domesticated. The zebra is one animal that comes to mind as they are so similar to horses but are just too mean and stubborn to do what you want then to do.
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As far as the wheel in the Americas, it appears that some indians used them on toys and that in South America they may even have had potter's wheels. Link: http://www.trends.ca/~yuku/tran/xwh.htm
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06-16-2005 12:06 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Silent H
06-16-2005 11:59 AM

Well I thought it was an excellent book! I also liked his "The Third Chimpanzee" and I'm currently reading his latest "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed". I would definitely recommend reading "Guns, Germs, and Steel".
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