With this changed economy, people could begin living in groups larger than tribes and that required the conceptual and organizational glue supplied by kings and priests. About the time of Moses, we had the beginnings of written language, only 2000 or 3000 years before Jesus. The earliest language was an extension of accounting for food surpluses. By 700 years before Jesus, not only managers but also religious leaders were using language extensively. Written language allowed for the development of rules and orthodoxy, and all that began to mean for the development of kingdoms and religions.
Hebrew scriptures are a prominent example of such old writing.
Within Hebrew scripture, we learn about what it was like to move from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. We read about what it was like for a nomadic and herding people to fight for living space with those who had cereal crops and iron and horses. Jesus lived right in the middle of the Fertile Crescent at the first climax of empire creation. Only 400 years before Jesus, Alexander the Great had conquered all the known kingdoms from the Atlantic through India, and all of Africa that seemed worth the trouble. Alexander's empire soon broke into four pieces and the center of control moved westward from the Fertile Crescent toward Alexandria and Rome.