This time line about the changes transport and logistic has been through the last year of humanity.
By enr101
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Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Horses are domesticated
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Period: 3500 BCE to 3100 BCE
The wheel is invented in Iraq
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Period: 3100 BCE to 3000 BCE
The sailing boat is invented in Egypt
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Period: 3000 BCE to 2000 BCE
Camels are domesticated
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Period: 2700 BCE to 2800 BCE
The Egyptians begin using wooden ships for trade by sea
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Goods are transported by pack horse. Goods are also transported around the coast of Britain by ship.
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Charles I allows the public to pay his messengers to carry letters. It is the beginning of the Royal Mail.
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The first turnpike roads open. Turnpikes are privately owned and maintained but you have to pay to use them. Their name comes from an old word for a gate, pike. In towns the wealthy are carried by sedan chairs.
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The Bridgwater Canal opens. Many more canals are dug in the late 18th and early 19th century.
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The hot air balloon and the hydrogen balloon are invented.
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Two men fly across the English Channel in a hydrogen balloon
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Steamships begin crossing the English Channel
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The Savannah becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic
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The first passenger railway opens
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Horse drawn omnibuses run in London