**Rules**

- It is impossible for human beings to use electricity for non-biological functions

- Any chemical reaction that would be utilized specifically to cause the rapid expansion of particles is undiscovered , and no such effect can occur outside of nature

My Question is: How advanced could civilizations in my world get with the absence of Electricity and Explosives? 

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Pointless Backstory: Some 180,000 years after Aramo'irat , the great hunter , created Mankind , the Nature goddess Gahinfofogehey had a terrible nightmare in her halls of wood. She dreamed that a Creation of Aramo'irat would use fire ( his gift to them ) to extract metals from the Earth. They would use their mastery of metal to become the dominant species , then , they would use their metals to extract lighting from heaven , and explosives from earth. Using these , his creations would bring daylight in the night , wage war on each other , then the earth its self , wiping out half of all life. After conquering the mortal world, they would sail into heaven on fish that flew with fire , and overthrew the gods.

After having the dream , she told the Heavenly gods , and petitioned them to destroy Aramo'irat's creations , but Aramo'irat threatened that if they tried , he would gather all the earthly spirits and wage war on heaven. So , Gahinfofogehey devised a plan. She filled Aramo'irats drinking springs with opium , and when he had succumbed to the drug , Gahinfofogehey went to Ojotopakitahey god of storms, and knelt before him , explaining her dream and crying. He was so moved that he remove all lightning from the world , save for his own. Then she went to T'obabiorigehey god of knowledge, and gave him gifts of Glass wrought into tubes , spheres , and shapes that could magnify images. He accepted her gifts , and removed all knowledge of explosives from the world. But as she went to Edabi'inogehey , God of Fire , Aramo'irat woke from his opium induced slumber, and when he realized what was going on , he sped to Edabi'inogehey's residence. He reminded him of the blood debt , and made him swear that he would not take fire from the world. When she came , she brought him a volcan spirit for a wife ( since he was made of fire , no woman would marry him ) , but when he explained that he could not take fire from the world , she left with the volcano spirit. After she left , he cursed Mankind , the favorite of Arimo'irat's creations , that fire would thereafter burn and disfigure them whenever they tried to hold it to use it. Then he cursed Gahinfofogehey's creations , that fire will eat their flesh , and burn their homes whenever thunder struck.