It used to be hunter-gatherer band, right, and then chiefdom, city-states, nations, now there are international organizations and so on and so forth.

以前是狩猎采集族群， 对吧，然后是酋邦、城邦、民族，现在有国际组织等等。

It took four years of lobbying by the association of women and girls of the Cadamawa Region, a father, to get the chiefdoms to agree to open to women.

作为父亲的Cadamawa Region是女协会花了间游说，才使酋长领地同意向女开放。

Our work with the women we explain to them how they can go through us to express their needs at the level of the chiefdom to denounce violence against women.

我与女一起工作，向解释如何通过我在酋长领地基层来表的需要，谴责对女的暴力行为。

There has also been a two-way flow of influences in art, religion, technology. Of course it has not always been a peaceful relationship; there have also been invasions and wars between southern states and chiefdoms in Sri Lanka.

当然，它的关系并非一直是和平的，历史上印度南方各邦与斯里兰卡诸酋邦之间的侵略和战争也有发生。

Between the fourth and the fifth cataracts of the  Nile lay the state of El-Kurru. This chiefdom was at an advantage as it had access to two important  trade routes, and it controlled the gold mines.

在尼罗河的第和第五大瀑布之间是埃尔库鲁 (El-Kurru) 州。 这个酋长领地处于优势地位，因为它可以进入两条重要的贸易路线， 并且控制着金矿。