Unit 8 Transportation Lesson 29 1.2 Before the invention of trains and cars, people could use three basic types of transportation. They could travel on horseback or ride on the back of another animal such as a donkey, a camel etc, or they could ride in a cart pulled by a horse. For a person who could not afford a horse or a donkey, the only choice waste travel on foot,that is, to walk. In ancient times,rivers were difficult to cross People could not cross wide rivers unless they had some sort of boat. However,if a river was not too wide, people could build a bridge across it. In places where the river was not very deep, people could walk across. In the past, roads were very different from today. They were just dirt tracks. So,in the winter the rain and sonw made these tracks full of mud. Sometimes,the roads were so bad that heavy cars could not pass. Even in good weather, travelling by road was slow. It could take many days to travel a few hundred kilometers.
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