Sentence examples for chiefdoms that from inspiring English sources
Of the regional chiefdoms that start a war for dominance, all but one will perish before the pristine state is formed.
Until the arrival of the Romans, the pattern of politics was a shifting succession of contending city-states and chiefdoms that occasionally integrated into ephemeral empires.
The emirate's wooded savanna area of about 1,150 square miles (2,980 square km) originally included four small Koro chiefdoms that paid tribute to the Hausa kingdom of Zazzau.
Other names are the smaller chiefdoms that were part of the Timucua province, with the exception of Yamassee, Apalachicola, and Chacato, which were their own entities.
This fits earlier archaeological evidence from Bronze Age settlements, burial mounds, and the exchange of artifacts such as swords that the peoples of Denmark and Germany had formed alliances between chiefdoms that probably involved intermarriage.
In Sierra Leone, women from two chiefdoms that established community loan funds [ 18] increased their utilization of obstetric services at the local government hospital compared to utilization prior to the fund (5 women in 1992 versus 12 in 1993) [LOE: 2-].
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.
Dr. Cosmopoulos said in an interview that the new findings appeared to show that some 200 years earlier this may have been the seat of an independent chiefdom that had already achieved a degree of literacy and political organization.
"He's trying to say we are the enemy of progress in the chiefdom, that we are not supporting development," says Amara.
Warfare may not usually be thought of as a form of cooperation, but organized hostilities between chiefdoms require that within each chiefdom people subordinate their individual self-interest to that of the group.
Journalist Umaru Fofana tells how the paramount chiefs, who represent all 149 chiefdoms, insisted that a ban on FGM be removed from the Child Rights Act in 2007.
