Damn, a thousand years after the advent of civilization, and 250,000 years after the emergence of behaviorally modern man.

Imagine just having to walk everywhere with all your shit all the time having no way to convienly carry any thing you manage to accumulate except for the muscles on your back.

The extreme poverty of life of pre-horse steppe wanderers must've been immemse.

I wonder what it must've been like for somewhere like China to see the vast ocean of haggardly feckless wretches always ambling around at your peripheries go from absolutely pitiable non-factors too suddenly start showing up to battles with the ancient version of nukes that completely fuck you up and topple your civilization every couple generations.