Question

Answer all the questions given under each caption:

Early state formation.

1. How were the societies classified before modern times by scholars?
2. Explain the term ‘bands’
3. What is meant by Chiefdoms?
4. What were proto-states?

Answer 1

1. Societies before modem times were classified as bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and proto-state by scholars.
2. Bands were small groups of people who were nomadic, making their living on hunting and gathering.
3. The Chiefdoms were political formations larger than the tribal level formation. People under chiefdoms lived over a larger area.
4. In the post-Neolithic period, in the Bronze Age societies, the early form of state (proto-state) originated in the areas where agricultural surplus and population density was more.