Yes, and it would be exhausting to entirely explain how flawed and ahistorical this is. For starters, you ignore social and property relations entirely when you imagine capitalism as "wealthy hoard money, empire make money." Wealth disparity and imperialism are certainly elements in capitalism, but do you think all these scholars are just big dumdums who didn't think of Rome?

I instead chose to encourage you to consider how you know what you know and that maybe you don't actually know enough. You should consider now if that level of self-accountability is a waste of time.