Timeline for Word for a society including many tribes
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| Apr 21, 2018 at 21:33 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @NigelJ confederacy and confederation, I've made citations of both. The Nation definitions I've seen include those two, and also includes "federation". Also, from what I understand often a Nation can refer to a single tribe. I've seen this in all the dictionaries, and for example in the Iroquois example the six Nations comprising the Iroquois were single tribes. The other three words exclude just a single tribe (has to be at least 2). Apart from all that, the OP doesn't want any of my suggestions, and doesn't want multitribal or intertribal either, so I'm kind of confused. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 18:49 | comment | added | Nigel J | @Zebrafish I was commenting on the answer given by Stu W, not your own answer. My own view is that Stu W's answer is correct - tribes, together, form a nation. I am just encouraging Stu W to go that little bit further and earn the up-vote. Your answer appearst o be 'confederacy'. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 18:46 | comment | added | Zebrafish | @NigelJ The definitions I've looked up for Nation is "tribe" or "confederation" or "federation" of tribes. Isn't that what my answer gave? | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 18:35 | comment | added | Nigel J | I am inclined to think that this is actually the correct answer to the question posed - a 'nation' - but you have not given any links to your research and I think you need to expand the answer somewhat to earn an up-vote. | |
| Apr 21, 2018 at 17:30 | history | answered | Stu W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |