I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…
Oh yeah good point! That ancient Mesopotamian nerd will also be like: “And they’ll make up stories about talking ponies… and they’ll dress up like furry animals and have meetings together!” Oh, Mesopotamian nerd, you were born way too soon…
I was gonna say “the timeless need to keep the kids quiet”… but I bet there was some ancient Mesopotamian nerd who made dozens of these and built a little model city and was like: one day the the wagons will drive themselves and there’ll be roads everywhere and the people will live in tall buildings and fly in the sky…
Ancient Mesopotamian nerd, I salute you!
Or they had little clay horses as well
Oh yeah good point! That ancient Mesopotamian nerd will also be like: “And they’ll make up stories about talking ponies… and they’ll dress up like furry animals and have meetings together!” Oh, Mesopotamian nerd, you were born way too soon…