Try reading an anthropology book rather than going by your "everyone knows" narratives. Here are some excerpts from books you might want to check out.
What happens if we accord significance to the 5,000 years in which cereal domestication did not lead to the emergence of pampered aristocracies, standing armies or debt peonage, rather than just the 5,000 in which it did?
Graeber, David. The Dawn of Everything (p. 523). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.
For much of our history, humans have valued their personal autonomy so completely that we did not tolerate anything else. Often chiefs or even kings only had theoretical power or wielded power more substantively only in their immediate vicinity. Out of sight, people continued to do what they wanted and to make decisions communally amongst themselves. In fact, there are even places where hierarchy and centralized authority did begin to arise, only to be later dismantled.
We’d never have guessed, for instance, that slavery was most likely abolished multiple times in history in multiple places; and that very possibly the same is true of war. Obviously, such abolitions are rarely definitive. Still, the periods in which free or relatively free societies existed are hardly insignificant. In fact, if you bracket the Eurasian Iron Age (which is effectively what we have been doing here), they represent the vast majority of human social experience.
Graeber, David. The Dawn of Everything (p. 523). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.
“Beginning in Europe somewhere around 4300 or 4200 B.C.E., the ancient world was battered by wave after wave of barbarian invasions. After the initial period of destruction and chaos, gradually there emerged the societies that are celebrated in our high school and college textbooks as marking the beginnings of Western civilization. But concealed within this purportedly grand and glorious beginning was the flaw that has widened into the most dangerous of chasms in our time.
After millennia of upward movement in our technological, social, and cultural evolution, an ominous split was now underway. Like the deep cracks left by violent movements of the earth in that time, the breach between our technological and social evolution on the one hand and our cultural evolution on the other would steadily widen. The technological and social movement toward greater complexity of structure and function resumed. But the possibilities for cultural development were now to be stunted—rigidly caged in a dominator society.”50
Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade (pp. 101-102). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
