I can relate to the pastoral people. They helped each other and stayed close but in very small groups.  Women even had a voice and were looked upon as a role models. Of course, women of these glamorous raw life was not simple. Washing of the clothing was by hands, river or spring with a good large rock to scrub the clothing loose. Not to mention the cooking and cleaning was not that easy. It is amazing to learn how people lived and the struggles they had to endure to live life, such as traveling from one place to another. How these people were able to master import and export that is now all over the world. Just for a simple fruit or an exotic plant, what people will pay for, for goods from another country.  I remember growing up and us kids had to use the outdoor potty. Scrub our clothes in a bucket with washboard, rinse in clear water and wring it, until we got a thingabob that squeezed the clothes. Take care of our domesticated animals and the garden. It is a great thing that we did not lose the importance of agriculture and animals that we can love and nurture. Not to mention the changing of tools and how they have learned to use these towards the spread of agriculture and trade. 

With all the new discoveries and documents of what our ancestors have accomplished with very little resources and knowledge is very remarkable. It is like how did they know how the earth have looked like and developed an map that is so beautiful and to the point hundreds of years beyond of no technology of what we have today. How did they know ???