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by daniel-cussen 1538 days ago
No, not that much, they knew how to make glass since way long ago. I guess in the Americas you could, they apparently either had not much glass or it wasn't viable (like the wheel, which was for children's toys mostly).
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I've always wondered how things would have played out in the americas if someone had invented something like the Chinese wheelbarrow[1] which is meant to work something like a human powered cart.

[1]https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbar...