"Where do you think organized crime came from?"

Where do you think governments come from?

The oldest Epos we have, Gilgamesh (from the top of my head):

"We came early in the morning. Anyone opposing, we killed. We took everything.

...

until they learned it was better to submit to us."

The rest is how he became then a king, but got bored and now thought, might as well be a good king (but that too got booring, so he got onto adventures angering the gods).

So this is the founding mythos of Babylon. Often considered the root of civilisation.