Was it on the plains of Mesopotamia or perhaps in the fields ... When we think of the wheel, we tend to picture carts trundling across dusty roads or wagons pulled by oxen through fields.

One suggests that it first appeared in Mesopotamia around 4000 ... The second innovation was a wheelset, or wheels fixed to an axle, which could have given the cart a higher clearance to pass ...

was invented around 6,000 years ago somewhere in Mesopotamia. Together with the axle it revolutionized human technological history and in time led to the invention of carts, potter wheels ...

After the one-wheeled carts, many cultures invented ... of the historical Western Asian region of Mesopotamia, invented the sledge only after the wheel was invented. This progressed to the idea ...

Evidence indicates the wheel was created to serve as potter's wheels around 3500 B.C. in Mesopotamia—300 years before they were used for chariots. Jim Vecchi / Corbis It’s fair to say that ...

Some studies point to northern Turkey as the place where the wheel was invented around 3800BC while others speculate it was developed first in Mesopotamia ... first wheeled cart in eastern Europe ...