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Yolanda

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What is a nation-state?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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What is a major difference between tribes and bands?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: It is a group of people sharing a common cultural background and unified by a political structure that they all consider to be legitimate.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: Tribal societies have certain pan-tribal mechanisms that cut across and integrate all of the local segments of the tribe into a larger whole.



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