(Men mostly) hunt and women mostly gather. When anthropologist Carol Ember surveyed 179 societies, she found only 13 in which women participated in hunting.
Until about 12,000 to 11,000 years ago, when agriculture and animal domestication emerged in southwest Asia and in Mesoamerica, all peoples were hunter-gatherers.
The plague had an important effect on the relationship between the lords who owned much of the land in Europe and the peasants who worked for the lords.
The Catholic Church suppressed many ideas of the Scientific Revolution and they even excommunicated Galileo for saying that the earth revolved around the sun
