A cause of conflict in world history is power control. Dictatorships and other totalitarian governments will have a single leader that will hold most or all the power. Giving all that power to one ruler will obviously cause major conflicts like war, power abuse, and problems like starvation and unright judicial punishment to people of said country. There has been totalitarian government since there has been governments, surprisingly enough, even today there are dictatorships in places like North Korea and Syria. One of the more famous examples of a dictator abusing his power is Adolf Hitler when he began to exterminate the jewish population for purely racist reasons. This caused massive conflict in Germany between people with this racist
