No, they kept using it all along, and when they migrated to the middle-east they took it with them, and when their grandchildren migrated to Europe they took it there as well, ultimately all the way to China and the Americas. 
It didn't get very popular in Southern Africa but it did exist here too. Tribes were using wagons and wheelbarrows long before white people got here.

Wow, you really believed the bullshit the NATS taught you in school didn't you ?