Genghis Khan is the leader
The Sumerians in Mesopotamia near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers being among the first civilized well-developed agricultural nations in the world, learned from the Ubaidians. The latter people were a strong creative force at one time who gave rise to such things as weaving, masonry and pottery which could explain the origins of artifacts like the one shown above here.
Many new machines like the cotton engine. It improved men's clothing and provided new weapons. (Industrial Revolution)
Britain is the answer! Or Great Britain could be it.