
Actually even that’s not true. The very latest you can argue capitalism was “invented” was around 475 CE. But even ancient societies like the Ancient Greeks and romans were capitalist societies. Any kind of society where any citizen had the means to provide a good or service and that good or service was compensated by something of, at minimum, equal value is a capitalist adjacent society. So any medieval, renaissance, etc. society would be considered a capitalist or capitalist adjacent society.
A COMMUNIST society is a society where you, the average person, sees ZERO compensation for the goods or services that you provide. The STATE (in theory) provides you with food and housing regardless of if you even provide anything in return. That’s one reason a communist society can never actually function and any attempt at making one function fails terribly, because a communist society has to provide for those who don’t provide for the society.