A chiefdom is a form of political organization intermediate between a tribea tribe may be dozens to hundreds of people, larger than a band but not as large as a chiefdom; tribes are often associated with agriculture and animal domestication, though on a small scale; tribes may have a village or two with little bureaucracy and an informal political organization and a statea state is an independent political entity with a centralized government and set geographical boundaries where control is exercised by police or military; a state claims the right to defend itself from both internal and external threats by use of force; a state may have many villages and cities and/or millions or billions of people as in China and India, and is based on kinship. There may be 100’s of people and several villages; and a chiefdom is associated with agriculturecultivation of soil to grow food plants using technologies such as plowing, irrigation, terracing, fertilizers and harnessing power of domesticated animals and domestication of animals
