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OCR: The Wheel (35I0BCE.) About the Wh eel The wheel was developed about 5,000 years aga along the Mediterranean Sea. .This primitive wooden disk. first used potter's wheel, was quickly put to use n new time-sa vine inventions: the wheeled cart, the chariot and the wagon. With the wheel, people could move mat terials more quickly from place to place and fields could be plowed more easily Power could be harnessed through windmills and waterw heels 3500 wopeem ving materials