clash of civilizations. who is responsible for fostering this innovation ?

the course of human history has never at any point been determined by a clash of civilizations. who is responsible for fostering this innovation ? who is behind the idea of getting the world involved in theoretical issues and not the tasks of comprehensive development and poverty eradication ?
our pharaonic forefathers did not seek to in vade their neighbours and plunder their wealth. when the egyptians first ranged beyond our borders , it was to pursue the  remnants of the invading hyksos this occurred in 1770 BC , some 2.500 years after the unification of upper and lower egypt it followed that our ancestors built the great pyramid - the first of the seven wonders of the ancient world without enslaving another people , without " foreign expertise " and without needing technology transfer to copy a precedent made abroad .
although the hyksos invasion made it clear to the ancient egyptians that the approach to their country passed through syria and palestine. this knowledge did not compel them to force their language and culture upon the peoples of those landes , the pharaohs were content to have neighbouring rulers as friends and their owen modes of life, while  pursuing commercial relation in the eastern mediterranean countries