Humble leaders use their expertise, experience and knowledge to bring together people to increase revenue, improve production or efficiency and return to the community. Leaders who are modest use their successes for the common good than for self-extension.
Southern Europe, parts of modern day turkey and northeastern africa
In 139 B.C.E., the Chinese emperor dispatched Zhang Qian to central Asia to seek allies against the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were a large confederation of Eurasian nomads who dominated the Asian Steppe.
I shut off the harbors that were bringing in supplies and it's a political battle too because if you take the biggest city then you strike more fear and often win.