Is Modernity Just the Growth of a Technological Complex?

Is science as we understand it actually a thing? Or is modernity just the growth of the technological complex. And you can gain value from the political side too, right? The original greek system was based on these small groups working in cities which are in varying degrees of conflict with each other. Its political moves by alexander and by rome that create this large, stable space where you can start having some kind of scientific community or philosophical community atactually encompasses an entire region of the world.