It took time and a considerable investment to create the necessary infrastructure and for the largely unskilled workforce to develop the techniques of iron working.
The time-bound priests, unskilled in technological change and the military arts, lost power to spatially oriented kings intent on territorial expansion.
As a result, the bands were often unskilled, untalented, or conversely, so polished and professional that they seemed wildly inappropriate at a no-frills, guerrilla concert.
