Over a long-enough timeline, this story is one of steady upward progress from small mobile bands of foragers to farmers living in villages, then elite-dominated chiefdoms, then kings and states extracting surplus from their subjects. That is an extremely selective reading of what actually happened.

There was no specific causal relationship between the different elements that we consider the "civilization package." Agriculture, sedentism, social hierarchy, writing, urbanism, political institutions: all emerged in a variety of different contexts around the world.