nostr:npub1hpcdfjpxrawnmu6ryh36ce7xu4qd54pu6xca394yhvmyzlery0tqvghjn3 Have you read James C Scott's *Against the Grain*?

If not, I cannot recommend it more highly for an exceptionally well informed 'anarchist squint' on this period of history.

TL;DR it isn't 'civilisation' but the forced domestication of human labour.