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Archaeologists use artifacts and features to learn how people lived in specific times and places. They want to know what these people's daily lives were like, how they were governed, how they interacted with each other, and what they believed and valued.
The Spartan government was by a small group of people-the vast majority of citizens could only vote yes or no the questions put to it. Most of the decisions were made by a small group of ephors (high ranking magistrates) constrained by the constitution of Lycurgus and the two kings.
During the Cold War there was a concern in the United States over the expansion of communism. This fear of communism manifested itself in the domino theory an idea which governed much of us foreign policy starting in the 1950s. The domino theory was essentially the idea that if one nation fell to communism its neighboring counties would as well and this process would repeat itself almost resembling a row of dominos falling (hence the name). Because of this theory many political leaders in the us feared that if former French colonies like Vietnam fell to communism than their neighboring counties would as well including Laos, Cambodia, etc.