Examples of Civilizations and Societies That Have Collapsed
By Reversion/Simplification
- Hittite Empire
- Mycenaean Greece
- The Neo-Assyrian Empire
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Angkor civilization of the Khmer Empire
- Han and Tang Dynasty of China
- Anasazi
- Western Roman Empire, Decline of the Roman Empire
- Izapa
- Maya, Classic Maya collapse
- Munhumutapa Empire
- Olmec
By Incorporation/Absorption
- Sumer by the Akkadian Empire
- Ancient Egypt by the Libyans, Nubians, Assyria, Babylonia, Persian rule, Greece, Ptolemaic Dynasty, and the Roman Empire
- Babylonia by the Hittites
- Etruscans by the Roman Republic
- Ancient Levant
- Classical Greece by the Roman Empire
- Dacians by the Roman Empire
- Eastern Roman Empire (Medieval Greek) of the Byzantines by the Arabs
- Modern North East Asian civilisations
- Qin, Song, Mongol and Qing China
- Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, ending with the Meiji Restoration
- Aztecs by the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
- Incas by the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire
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