Any examples from history in which there was a shortage of a certain resource? I can only think of wood and maybe during wars. But am looking for a kind of resource depletion.
Anasazi, Mayans, Norse in Greenland, Khmer empire, Rwanda etc.
>>1403036
Are you Jared Diamond? I cannot remember what kind of resources run out in those examples. Am not so much talking of collapse.
>>1403042
Food production potential is a resource.
>>1403027
Kievan Rus didn't have enough silver to cover the need so it often used foreign coins. There was also a period stretching from 12th to 14th century when almost no coins were used at all on its territory.
>>1403044
Of course. Though I am thinking more of non-food, hence the confusion.
>>1403027
Nauru until some decades ago was very from rich phosphate mining, now it ran out and they're dirt poor.
