The answer is A, treated like property and had hard lives.
Static societies can not benefit from cultural blending because they are not open to change. Such societies also are not open to new ideas.
It is beleived that the Arab pennisula was a sphere of scientific inventions. This got lost when the societies a new phase of closing to themselves. This has led to some scholars postulating that the arab pennisular stopped developing when they stopped learning from others.
Toolmaking is probably what gave hominids the most power over the environment for with tools they were able to manipulate more things at their will. Fishing, chopping, construction, destruction, and more for instance, would have been significantly harder to do without some type of tool.
