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Inventions (The Plow (Why important (Surplus food could be traded (allowed…
Inventions
The Plow
Why important
Surplus food could be traded
allowed for specialization in labor
When?
~3000 BC
Wheel
Important because it allowed people and materials to be moved quickly and efficiently
Cities can grow
Roads needed
Romans built Appian way, one of the first major roads
~3500 BC
Automobile
1885 by Carl Benz
Allowed people to live outside of cities
allowed civilization to spread increase trade and made long travel affordable and fast
Printing Press
Allowed information to spread rapidly and cheaply
even poor could be educated
knowledge=power, power now belonged to anyone with knowledge
Johannes Gutenberg in 1400