The British Museum: Kings, Gods & Stabbing - London, England

Things Humans Make. The Story of Civilisation.

The resources of your society are best deployed creating homages to deities. And kings. And queens.
Kings, queens and gods. Those are valuable.

It is also very important to make really good tools for killing other people. Bad people, of course. People who don’t give proper respect to your king/queen/gods. Bronze is OK, but if you want to build a serious empire, make your stabbing tools out of iron.

If you have some time left over after you have made the statues of the king, then make a really fancy building to bury the king in when he dies. Everyone will be a lot happier if the king is buried in a really massive, fancy tomb.

You can do some musical instruments, or nice looking pots too if you have time, but it’s probably best to focus on the important stuff:
Statues of the king.
Statues of the gods (really scary looking ones.)
Big tombs.
Lots and lots of super sharp weapons.

If you start practising now, in about 4000 years you should be really good at making stuff.

Don’t just sit there fiddling with that guitar, get busy!