I feel like anyone who has ever played the game Civilization on any mode equal to or higher than "Warlord" can understand. It was probably brutally hard to get

I feel like anyone who has ever played the game Civilization on any mode equal to or higher than "Warlord" can understand. It was probably brutally hard to get a civilization going for long enough to even invent any tech let alone share that knowledge with the rest of the world.