Two modern states characterized by Spartan suppression of the individual are: Nazi Germany and Communist Russia, since these were very extractive and violent institutions (although Nazi Germany was worse).
The coal industry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Of Indochina's raw materials or U.S scrap metal
Decline of Sumer:
Poor irrigation reduced agricultural yields.
Population moved.
Elamite invasion.
