The precursor to the complex political organizations we now call the state is the

The precursor to the complex political organizations we now call the state is the chiefdom.

Chiefdom was a political organization or unit that was common in non-industrial societies. It consisted of communities or villages that were under the control of a person or a group of persons, called chiefs. Its government was a form of aristocracy or centralization of power.

This organization is widely considered as transitional to the true state we have today.

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