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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 7 Oct 2020

      this is some real “notes on the state of virginia” type shit.pic.twitter.com/TVqjIasl4R

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    2. David M. Perry‏Verified account @Lollardfish 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @jbouie

      but also ... the earliest wheels that I'm aware of come from Mesopotamia, so ... Iraq. (I'm a medievalist not an ancient historian so might have that wrong).

      6 replies 4 retweets 293 likes
    3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @Lollardfish @jbouie

      I mean, what the hell is he even talking about? There were sophisticated and advanced states all through Africa long before the 19th century. He's just imagining it from some game of Civilization he played on the easiest settings.

      2 replies 3 retweets 126 likes
    4. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Lollardfish @jbouie

      As far as I can tell, his source here is a line in the wikipedia entry on "wheel" which says "The wheel was barely used, with the exception of the Horn of Africa, in Sub-Saharan Africa well into the 19th century but this changed with the arrival of the Europeans."

      1 reply 2 retweets 33 likes
    5. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Lollardfish @jbouie

      "barely used" though, seems to suggest very strongly that it had been *invented*.

      1 reply 2 retweets 46 likes
    6. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Lollardfish @jbouie

      And the article itself talks about why societies in sub-Saharan Africa found wheeled transportation to be inefficient in local conditions until the development of railroads, which, of course, make sense as a 19th century development.

      1 reply 2 retweets 46 likes
    7. Chris is paranoidly optimistic‏ @ctopherrun 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @Lollardfish @jbouie

      These people always talk like wheels were chipped out of stone by European cavemen like in a Far Side cartoon while everyone else fumbled around for the next 10,000 years. Ya ever tried to make a wheel? On an axle? That all works? It's really hard! I got a donkey, I'll use that!

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 7 Oct 2020
      Replying to @ctopherrun @mssilverstein and

      Wheeled vehicles are notoriously inconvenient and dangerous to try to use on rough terrain, it's why road building is such an important infrastructure project for empires

      10:03 AM - 7 Oct 2020
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        2. Doctor What‏ @voidstamp 7 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ctopherrun and

          Not using the wheel is a thing people try to knock Central American empires for, like the Incas. What good is a wheel going to do on mountains? Or in a jungle?

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        3. Doctor What‏ @voidstamp 7 Oct 2020
          Replying to @voidstamp @arthur_affect and

          *Central and South

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @ctopherrun and

          To some extent, the readiest evidence of this is that you really don't see wheeled vehicles being used in warfare on any kind of scale until what, World War I? And even then, mostly on treads and not until the later parts of the war.

          1 reply 0 retweets 13 likes
        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 7 Oct 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

          There were earlier versions - chariots, most notably, which were a major improvement in weaponry when they appeared in the 2nd millennium BC, but they were defeated by javelins.

          1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
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