Scientific Advisor: Your Majesty, we have discovered a Great New Tech!. It is calles Scientific Method.
King: What is it good for?
Scientific Advisor: Ummh... it obsoletes our Great Library and all our monasteries.
King: Guards!!!
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3800 BC:
Scientific Advisor: Your Majesty, we should build an obelisk in our newly founded city.
King: Sounds Great. But... what is an obelisk good for??
Scientifc Advisor: It gives on culture per turn.
King: Sounds Great. But.... what the hell is culture? Can we eat it.
Scientific Advisor: No, Sir, that's food.
King: Or can we build something with this culture?
Scientific Advisor: No, Sir, that are hammers.
King: So, what the hell is culture?
Scientific Advisor: It let's our borders expand.
King: Ah, I undestand. Culture is a military unit, which we can use to enlarge our territory.
Scientific Advisor: Nope.
King: That, the heck, is this culture???
Scientific advisor: It's ...ummh.. a little purple note
King: What is a note?
Scientific Advisor: You use it to write up music on paper.
King: Write??? Music??? Paper??? Never heard of it. What's that?
Scientific Advisor: Don't know. We haven't researched neither Writing nor Music nor Paper.
King: Guards!!!
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King: Let's chop those forests!
Advisor: Sorry, Your Majesty, we can't chop forests. We have to research bronze working first.
15 Years later:
Advisor: Your Majesty, we discovered bronze working, but we have no copper!
King: So we don't can make axes to chop those forests.
Advisor: Not exactly. We can't build axes, but we can chop forests.
King: With what???
Advisor: Dunno...
King: Guards!!!
another 15 years later...
new Advisor: Your Majesty, we have connected copper.
King: Sounds great. Let's build some bronze axes and cut down those djungles!
new Advisor: Sorry, Your Majesty, but wen have to research iron working. Bronze tools are not sharp enough to cut down djungle.
another 15 years later....
new Advisor: Your majesty, we have discovered iron working, but we don't have iron.
King: So we can't cut don't those djungles.
new Advisor: We can.
King: With what???
new Advisor: Bronze axes????
King: Guards!!!