"Technology" pre-dates people. Various animals modify objects to make tools for some purpose or another. Australopithecines made crudely-worked stone tools, millions of years before Homo sapiens.
Civilization usually includes a fixed living place (as contrasted with a nomadic lifestyle), specialization of labour (craft specialists, a distinct religious organization), a 'ruling class', relative wealth & poverty, organized warfare, etc. Except for aboriginal people on the Pacific Coasts of North and South America (where very abundant fish and other ocean resouces fed the society), civilization only developed where agriculture made it possible to generate more food than was required to supply peoples' most basic needs.
Incidentally, it has been established that the shift from a nomadic society to an agricultural one resulted in poorer health for most people.
Mesopotamia was one of the areas where agriculture developed early. Indian, African, and 'New World' societies developed at a similar pace.
