Western Civilization originates from elite control of a national group.
Ever heard of Sparta? Rome? British, German, Austrian, Russian empires?
Elite control is practically the entire history of Western Civilization until the suicide of WW I allowed the silly ideas of Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House to wreck the world.
Yes, it is the history of the entire world.
The Egyptian Pharoes ruled with total power.
Western Civilization did not invent control by an “elite”.
Western Civilization figured out how to spread out the power to allow greater freedom. The Chinese empire, and the Muslim Empire, both had access to paper, gunpowder, and the compass before Christendom did.
Yet Chrisendom conquered the world and brought about science and the industrial revolution from the synergy of those technologies and a reverence for the truth.