Question

In what ways were the societies of bantu africa, the ancestral pueblo, mound builders, and the peoples of oceania an alternative to civilization?

Answer 1

 The societies established city states similar in complexity with imperial city states of Greece and Mesopotamia but lacking in coercive authority. The Bantu city state were populated but had no centralized authority structures but were grouped into chiefdom, and age sets, which interchangeably shared powers.