Yes, but it also allows for scale. It's an outgrowth of a free market which is as human as language. Unless there's some form of economic oppression you probably always end up with something that looks like capitalism unfortunately.

Markets and trade are as old as the ancient formation of city-states, but primitive capital accumulation by merchants arbitrage of trade between city-states was limited, until in the 15-16th centuries, when the merchants began to seize political power, which provided legal frameworks for capitalism to expand, backed by the violence of the state. So yes, I agree Capitalists forms of market and trade existed throughout the ancient world, but Capitalism as a hegemonic global economic system depends on its control of political power and state violence. What changed about 500 years ago is the invention of the printing press, which allowed people to read and interpret the Bible for the themselves in Europe, which prompted the Protestant Reformation, undermining the union of the feudal-state with the Catholic church. This was the crucial historical moment where the merchant class, which was highly organized and resourced, was able to seize political power, and that is when the nation-state emerged.

We are in violent agreement. Those are the details to this timeline. I'm only adding, in any timeline it would be difficult if not impossible to stop capitalism from happening sooner or later.