If our ancestors look at the technology onto which we run our transportation these days, they might not actually believe it possible.
The first mode of transportation is believed to be the dug our canoe and it was only after the Sumerians realized that their potter wheels could actually be used as a wheel that in turn can be used to transport things or even themselves.
In the western world, sailing ships came to be used only as late as the 15th century whereas the Chinese had already invented the compass by then which was the most necessary item needed by anyone who wished to travel and not get lost.
