But recently, Arab tribes have begun fighting Arab tribes, rebels have begun fighting rebels and armed men who seem to have no allegiances are attacking whoever crosses their path.
As resources dwindle, fighting between tribes over scarce resources becomes common.
He estimated that 20 people die every week in Afghanistan in fierce fighting between tribes and between American and Taliban fighters.
The year is 117 A.D., and the battles take place in the woods of northern Britain (now Scotland) where Roman soldiers are fighting the tribes known as the Picts.
A trusted friend of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, Macrinus won his spurs fighting Germanic tribes, just like Crowe's character, which was enough for the site to be known as "the Gladiator tomb".
But these all seem to date to the 80s AD, when detachments of the Ninth were indeed on the Rhine fighting Germanic tribes.
But getting slots into Los Alamitos will mean fighting Indian tribes and Nevada interests to change the state constitution, which limits one-armed bandits to Indian casinos.
If the central power is sufficiently weakened, there is no real civil society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common identity...The state then disintegrates...into a chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions, and parties.
This magical land was first given to the fighting Alokozai tribe by Nadir Shah, who brought down the Safavid empire of Persia with its help in 1738.
"If liabilities bankrupt the Navajo Nation, we won't have funds to develop cleaner energy," says Lori Goodman, treasurer of Diné CARE, a Navajo environmental group fighting the tribe's ongoing involvement in coal.
