The humans stopped being nomadic hunter-gatherers and were able to make their own food, instead of chasing it down, and cultures were able to be established. Mesopotamia is one example; nomadic tribes can together, learned to farm, and established a culture(and later a civilization).
The last election was 2016, so the next would be 2020, seeing as they are every 4 years
In ancient rome they built their roads out from rome towards the frontier of the empire as they conquered
It focused on monotheism instead of polytheism. Judaism religion only focused on one God and was very different from various religions during the ancient times and in the same period. They only had YHWH, as God. The description of this follows as YHWH instituted the laws, known as the Ten Commandments. And its laws as it states the first commandment:
There is no other gods other than YHWH. In which this verifies the divergence of the Judaism religion.... I hope this helps ^-^