The first form of transportation was walking. Nomads were the masters of this skill. According to dictionary.com, a nomad is “a member of people or tribe that has no permanent bode, but moves about from place to place” (dictionary.com). They often moved around to find landscape for their livestock. Those who were not nomads created villages and began to grow their own produce. Looking back at history, particular …show more content…
This sources of transportation gave to people what walking did not, which was faster transportation. While walking would take weeks or maybe even months to get somewhere, using horses cut the half in half. Now that horses were available horses could carry more weight than the average person could, increasing the amount of goods transported from the buyer to sellers. Between the evolution of horse and carriage, creative destruction occurs. Creative destruction is “the replacement of old products and production methods by innovative new ones that consumers judge to be superior” (Private and Public Choice, Pg. 31). Carriages provided more benefits to the supplier than a single horse due to the fact a carriage build surface area to transport more goods, as well as shading depending upon the carriage to prevent the produce to welt from the sun. These carriages were pulled by horses, still making time, but now able to transport twice or three times more than