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[QUOTE]Originally posted by zarahan- aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] [b]apart from this there's no evidence wheels were in common use until they were used in chariot warfare but were not used for non-military use like carts.[/b] ^^Not quite. While the siege towers attract more attention, some Egyptologists note that wheeled vehicles exist as far back as the Old Kingdom like 4 wheeled carts or carriages used to move coffins or religious regalia (a bark or ship for a particular god for example) during his festival processions. FOr example: [i]"The solid wooden wheel existed from the Old Kingdom, but it was too heavy for regular transport use over rough ground surfaces and was only employed on four wheeled carriages, which sometimes carried coffins or the god's sacred bark during his festival procession." [/i] --Rosalie David 1999. HANDBOOK TO LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT. p260 And of course, the wheel was also used in pottery, in pulleys and in lathes in the Nile Valley. Heavy deployment for transport duty was no doubt limited by the primary loads to be moved- like 20 ton blocks - for which water transport, ramps, and sleds were better. [b]It is also known that Nubians used horse-driven chariots imported from Egypt.[1 [/b] They did, but there is also some evidence that some chariots themselves were manufactured in Nubia. Indeed Nubian mercenaries were sometimes key agents in the dissemination of new war tech in the Nile Valley. [i]"Nubia, too, must have benefited from the international arms trade. Although battle scenes show Nubian enemies conventionally as bowmen with relatively little equipment, other sources show the use of chariots by the elite, and the "tribute" scenes show weaponry and armor that was manufactured in Nubia... the inclusion of chariots as part of the Kushite tribute to Egypt suggests that they, too, were eventually being manufactured in Nubia itself". [/i] --R. Morkot 2003. Historical Dictionary of Ancient Egyptian Warfare p26 ------------------------------------------------------------ PS: I love Uganda :) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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