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What are lamas and other domesticable camelids?

>>1940807
Worthless as pack animals.

>>1940810

Because Old World animals evolved naturally with capability of being beasts of burden, right?

>>1940813
I don't know, ask them.

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>>1940799
The ancient Chinese peasants looked to their Chariot riding aristocracy and thought it would be rad if they had wheels of their own, but they cant since they're poor as fuck and cant own a horse or a mule and the communal bull has a more important job than ferrying stuff around like plowing fields and basically acting as a living tractor.

So they settled for the next best thing:
>Invest in a wheel (A good one was akin to like buying a car).
>add sideboards to your wheel to tie shit on
>add handles.
>Be your own beast of burden
Wheelbarrow invented. Mass wheel usage intensifies.

>>1940813
Look at a llama. Now look at wild bulls. Llama is a mountain animal. We don't make sheep or goats pull the carts.

>>1940799
Wheels aren't suitable for all kinds of terrain, just some of them.

>>1940831
Which was invented in the 2nd century i.e. hundreds upon hundreds of years after they'd been using and innovating the wheel. If it didn't occur to them or anyone else who had access to traditional uses of the wheel until thousands of years after usage, why would anyone expect Amerindians to figure it out when they didn't even have that?

>>1940807
Only native to the Andes Mountains and much more effective there as pack animals than draft animals.

>>1941589
But the wheel would be useless either way on tose high rocky uneven mountains in the andes

>>1940799
Partially. The other part is that it's way, way harder to build a practical work wheel then a tiny one. A wheel has to hit the right level of friction so that you get grip, but the wheel can turn freely. Also, the axle has to get thicker to bear more weight if it's doing work. As both get larger, the margin of error is lower.