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All of that, but also:
- Virulent racism, to the point of inventing a three-level classification system for humans to justify their prejudices and misdeeds. (The Noldor do this too, though at least they have the justification that the Light of Aman is an actual thing.)
- Slavery.
- Ecological devastation, in the form of literally turning Southern Eriador from forest to plains.
- After Sauron gets his hooks into them: human sacrifice.
Numenor rose higher than almost any other civilisation in Middle-earth, but no other civilisation fell so far.
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