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<p>[quote user="tdmidget"]</p> <p>No one has established that chariots were standardized so this theory is just crap. Chariots would have been entirely hand made over the huge range of the roman empire and there no standards of accurate measure. A society measuring with "spans" and "cubits" and such could not have been able to produce a standardized object like a chariot. So , which chariot would it be?[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">I agree that they would not have begun with standardized the gage of non-track wheeled wagons or chariots. However, if they ran on roads surfaced with laid stone; and if they eventually cut ruts in the stone; then you would have what amounts to a railroad. At that point the rut spacing would amount to a gage. And from then on, you would have to build wagons to match that gage.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">Of course, the ruts would have developed according to a variety of wheel spacing, but as time when by, a natural consensus would have developed as to what spacing was the most common. And then the ruts would have tighted up their variation.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:verdana,geneva;font-size:small;">And measuring units would not have been a problem because all they had to do is match the ruts. That was the measuring unit. </span></p>
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