Turns out this prehistoric village wasn't exactly prehistoric... In fact it was the first dot in history most historians could consider to be part of history was Ruklit's village. The man had a tablet given to him by God, and then the immortal king kept finding disciples who'd advance fields of research in exceptionally short amounts of time. In the first thousand years his "village" was now a global empire, and the next thousand years would bring in cities similar to our own about a billion years earlier "racism" wasn't really a thing. There just wasn't enough time to evolve naturally to the point where there would be noticeable differences between people in different areas of the world, everyone was "African" for lack of a better term. At some point in the next thousand years the immortal king just kinda disappeared. Prophesized to come back one day when he's most needed, but in reality Ruklit had his fill of being an ultra monarch and just wanted to do whatever he really wanted. Still people still believe in Ruklit and his teachings about the afterlife.
Even though Ruklit took a backseat to managing everything he still influenced people from the shadows. Granting insight and genius level IQ to those he deemed to have some interesting ideas. Many a brilliant leader, tyrant, and inventors/innovators were brought because of that. He even managed to jumpstart evolution in a few ways by manipulating the genetics of certain groups of people in some areas.
Around what we'd call modern day society has advanced exceptionally far to include space travel. Ruklit is around granting genius level innovations to certain planets, but his efforts are far less impactful. It takes more than one genius to make similar leaps in progress, especially when they are spread out over the universe. That said the chronivac inventors should be growing up into adults in this new timeline. Perhaps they could make the difference in another breakthrough... or expose Ruklit for what he truly was. Either way where are we looking in this timeline?