I believe the answer is Barbed Wire.
Befor the inventions of barbed wire, the Cattles are let to roam freely across the plains and the owners are required to pay a lot of cowboys to supervise them so they didn't go missing. Witht he invention of barbed wire, they can keep the cattle in a secure place without supervision.
He used it for a rebellion to a formal statement to retrieve a molecule to be found so he could be president and it backfired and there was silence for the frightful civilians that knew that it was the twentieth century of the incribian.
Most of those religions focused on the sun, since the sun was giver of life...meaning food crops and warmth.
Hope this helepd.