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The earliest tires first appeared in which dynasty

The earliest tires first appeared around the Xia Dynasty, because around the Xia Dynasty, spoked wheels were gradually developed, the prototype of tires.

The earliest tires were made of wood or iron, as seen on ancient Chinese chariots and on foreign gentlemen's carriages.

? According to current archaeological data, the world's earliest known vehicle appeared in Sumer in 3000 BC. In most places, oxen were the first animals to pull a cart. The earliest wheels were made of 2 to 3 wooden planks put together without spokes, called wheel spokes, and around the Xia Dynasty, spoked wheels were gradually developed.

China is the world's earlier into the age of the wheel, and even the wheel is often used as the starting point of Chinese civilization, the invention of the wheel is worshiped by the Chinese people as the ancestor of the nation, he is Xuanyuan Huangdi. The Chinese nation named itself after Xuanyuan, which shows the revolutionary significance of the wheel to ancient China. In 4600 years ago, the yellow emperor in the empty mulberry mountain north to create the car, "horizontal wood for Xuan, straight wood for the yamen, so the name is said Xuanyuan's". The Book of the Later Han Dynasty (《后汉书》) recorded in the Book of Public Opinion and Clothing that "the sages in the ancient times saw the spinning of the canopy, and then they knew it was a wheel. Wheel traveling can be carried, due to the knowledge of life, and then for the knowledge of the mikoshi. The world benefits from the fact that the wheel and the carriage ride each other, and the flow is limitless, and the load is heavy and the world is far-reaching. Ancient books say, "Xia Houzhi had twenty men in a carriage," which means that there were already large vehicles pulled by twenty men at that time. By 2000 B.C., oxcarts and horse-drawn carriages were already in great use in China. In the Historical Records of the Xia Benji, it is said that when Xia Yu ruled over the water, he "took a car on the land, a boat on the water, and a sled on the mud", so it can be seen that the transportation system was already basically complete at that time.