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Inversely a historian once explained to me that generally through history in order to take an area, you took the local village, or even city and there was a great deal less focus until later on specific borders or a campaign where your goal was tracts of land. Effectively if you took the city state, you generally had obtained the local surrounding land as well.... and if you didn't plan to keep the village or city, you destroyed it and the next nearest city or village was effectively the point of control.