Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "What wheelbarrows can teach us about world history" video.

even in places in Rural Africa where the Wheel Barrow is used, people still also carry things. A whole lot of times, walking is more efficient than wheels, if wheels were super efficient in all situations, animals would have evolved them. It is far from just an invention thing, like walking across mud, jungle or rock side is easier than moving a wheelbarrow along it.
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@sketchesofpayne Because no one invented a completely new technology just to deal with a rare situation and instead adapted existing tevhnologies to rare situations. You would have to show those rare situations are even common enough that using existing methods like walking would be a burden.
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@sketchesofpayne Wheeled toys just had to roll around. They couldn't take the pressure of load, couldn't break, weren't tightly fitted. That's just a small number of the things that wheeled vehicles do that toys can't. Well, the main focus of the video is technologies exist in cultural context(so a better way of saying "it didn't make sense for them"). Often people focus on Cars and not the entire infrastructure of Roads that make them a thing, there's alot of things that could "go wrong" for a seemly useful technology to be a rare thing, especially if it needs alot of other technologies as infrastucture to manage it, like say roads for wheel barrows.
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@sketchesofpayne Well, this convo will go no where, so I should end this here. Also "copper they had for jewelry and trinkets instead of knives and axes" are we talking of Africa or the Americas here?. If its Africans they were making those stuff with Iron is the answer, if its the Americas that only applies well to like Mississppi area.
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@MatthewTheWanderer Ur just not used to it.
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@shryggur I was thinking more shells. If animals can evolved shells, a detached part of themselves, I don't see why they won't be able to evolve wheels and there's colonial animals like man of war where each part of the colony is specialized. Something like that too should be able to evolve wheels.
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@MatthewTheWanderer For me at least, it is about as easy as me carrying something on my shoulder which I often prefer cuz sometimes doing it on the ehad hurts the top of my head(why many of the women in the pctures on the video have some bundle of cloth on their heads bewteen the vessels and their head.
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@sketchesofpayne what I have listened to for mississippi is that the main issue is that they never invented smelting and only cold forged natural copper. This would be a pretty soft form of copper compared to most other forms it took eslewhere, whether as alloy or not, so it never replaced well made stone. Weird they never did smelting but I guess that was that.
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Yeah, that's something some of those questions missed. That even in places with carts, wheelbarrows and etc, often walking was still better than rolling.
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Ask. What did they say?.
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There's medieval toys with wheels almost everywhere. They've seen it in West Africa as well but its still a step ot two away to get from there to wheeler vehicles.
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I am late but the assumption of people here 1:23 is wrong, even in places in Rural Africa where the Wheel Barrow is used, people still also carry things. A whole lot of times, walking is more efficient than wheels, if wheels were super efficient in all situations, animals would have evolved them.
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Explains why they carried stuff on their heads. 😂😂😂
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