5,000-Year-Old Structures Discovered In Iraq Provide Evidence Of The First-Known Government Collapse In History
Ruins of the 4th-millennium B.C.E settlement at Shakhi Kora in Iraq have revealed the rise of centralized government — and then its sudden and apparently deliberate dismantling. Antiquity Journal / FacebookAn archaeologist at work at the Shakhi Kora settlement in Iraq . Throughout chronicle , the rise and fall of governments often seems to follow the same cycle . A group of people centralize and shape a government , the government activity lasts for some time , and then it fall , often because of political excitement , violent uprising , or environmental disaster and raw tragedy ....