Otherwise, how could your civilization have developed in the first place?

If the past steps are likely, then many civilizations would have developed to the current level of the human race.

How in the world could a civilization develop and have any continuity without an economic system?

But as civilizations developed, people wanted to divide up time into months and years.

Our civilization has not developed to the point where planetary interaction is possible.

But a hundred million years is a long time, and civilization developed again after the passing of the Traveler.

Civilization has developed without any need for the state.

"Why would any civilization develop this kind of phobia about control and order?"

Over the following millennia, civilizations would develop across the world.

During this era the most fertile areas of the world saw city states and the first civilizations develop.