Connecting The Hierarchy of Needs with Civilization

How does the Hierarchy of Needs connect with the resent civilization project?
Today in History class, after we all shared our posters about our civilizations, we were asked to just write for a few minutes about how the Hierarchy of needs connects with a whole civilization, not just one person. I said that it connects because when you are making a civilization, everything about the hierarchy of needs has to come into consideration. Especially the physiology/base of the pyramid. When you are making a civilization, you are thinking about how the people who live in the  civilization are going to get food and water, like what is on the bottom of the pyramid. Safety is the next thing that you are going to think about because there is always the possibility that there will be forest fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and also tons of other natural disasters. When you think about it, any and every location that you choose to start a civilization is naturally going to have some possibility of having a natural disaster, you just have to weigh out the pros and cons and which natural disasters are more devastating and which ones are going to be less of a concern. It is harder to know whether a civilization is going to have good esteem or "achievement" as we called it today in history, based on the geographic location because that has everything to do with the actual people who live in the civilization. Also, you can't know if there is going to be love/belonging or "community" also as we called it today, based in the location of the civilization. But, you can know that there for sure wont be any sense of achievement or community if there is no sense of safety or physiology.