**Ur III Period (especially 2010-2025 BC):** - Highly centr…

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**Ur III Period (especially 2010-2025 BC):**
- Highly centralized bureaucratic state in **decline phase**
- Economic strain from maintaining extensive administrative apparatus
- Climate stress (drought) contributing to agricultural crisis
- External pressures from Elamites and Amorites
- Final collapse around 2004 BC under Ibbi-Sin
- System too rigid to adapt to changing conditions