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“A true leader is one who is humble enough to admit their mistakes.”- Unknown. Many societies are really lucky to have a humble leader which can make their societies into one of the best. If societies don't have a great leader, there societys will not succeed. Great societies fall because of the great leaders dying, droughts, and neighboring tribes causing damage. Alot of great societies fall for many different reasons. The first reason is that Great leaders died. Whenever a great leader died, that society would lack that greatness that he/she had and the other rulers could not copy that greatness they had. In the Persian empire after The main leader died they had a hard time keeping their empire afloat. “Any society needs a strong ruler the keep it running smoothly.” Without an effective leader, they can …show more content…
When the neighboring tribes came in to other civilizations they would inflict a ton a damage to the people and the farms. In the ancient persian empire the Greeks were only there main threat of invasion. The Greeks had a small army against the big persian army. The Greeks fought through them and kept on going one by one, and weakening the persians. But the Greeks were losing a lot of men in their small army. So the persians eventually killed them all. But the greeks gave them trouble which shows how neighboring tribes can cause a difference. “Exeres was defeated by the greeks”. The persians never gave up on it. Also when neighboring tribes came in even if it was Peaceful or fighting they would carry diseases that would sicken every body and cause a lot of death. In the mongols the black death played a big role in the fall of the mongols with the amount

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