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 domesticationto tame animals, and to cultivate plants for human use More of animals
