Sentence examples for a chiefdom from inspiring English sources

The most highly developed of aboriginal slash-and-burn horticulturalists were undoubtedly the Maya of Guatemala and Yucatán, who had a chiefdom or primitive state.

In addition, the archaeologists identified human burials and artifacts that brought to life a ceremonial center of a chiefdom that had existed nearly 1200 years ago.

It became the headquarters of a chiefdom, which was enlarged by the conquest of neighbouring peoples and owed allegiance to the emir of Bauchi.

A chiefdom is divided into districts; the head of each district serves as a liaison between the paramount chief and his people.

They are descendants of a trading nation (usually called Gonja) founded in the 16th century, and they now constitute a chiefdom in the Northern region of Ghana, in the area above the confluence of the Black and White Volta rivers.

Previous studies have reported a Chalcolithic site distribution pattern in the Northern Negev as clustered, exhibiting a number of characteristics that imply a chiefdom level of organization.

The population is approximately 135,000 within a 35 km radius around central Macha, a large chiefdom with a hospital and market [ 32].

A number of villages constituted an independent chiefdom of a few thousand people.

In 1868 Samory, a member of the Mande group, proclaimed himself a religious chief and led a band of warriors in establishing a powerful chiefdom in the Kankan region of Guinea.

They divide into 22 chiefdoms, about half of which were tributary to a larger chiefdom before effective Portuguese occupation in the 20th century.

That's also the time when a small chiefdom society, the forerunner of the great Incan civilization, began to emerge.