Athens and Sparta was the main combatants in the peloponnesian war.
Great Britain imprisoned Jomo Kenyatta for the role in the Kenyan nationalist movement.
During Deindividuation, <span>a person who feels anonymous within a group experiences an increase in arousal and a decrease in self-consciousness, inhibitions, and personal responsibility.</span>
Make do with what you have. The Mesopotamians gave us a very valuable building material the brick. Having no locally available stone they used the plentiful supplies of mud and clay found on the banks of the Euphrates to make bricks.
There is also trade, exchange what you have for what you lack. In their case it was agricultural produce. This is how Babylon became a thriving and powerful city.
Finally when you finally become more powerful take the resources from your neighbours by force.
People might be able to solve coal mining from harming habitats maybe by finding a new way to run trains instead of coal. or by mining for coal less.
