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One benefit of stateless society
Social Mobility, flourishing trade, or markets
Smallest political unit in Igbo society, led by a father
Family
A lack of a centralized, hierarchical administrative apparatus
Stateless
Most respected member of elders' council. The oldest and wisest
Okpara
System in which each village governs itself
Self-governing
Participants in the village assembly
All adult males
Groups of people born close together responsible for community labor, public works, and enforcing decisions
Age Grades
System in which everyone is seen as equal, without specific social status
Egalitarianism
Diffusion of power to prevent tyranny
Core principle of Igbo society
Igbo name for title societies
Ozo
Highest authority in Igbo society, democratic meeting of all males
Village assembly
Members of these held moral authority and performed judicial roles
Title societies
Composed of kindred and custers of kindred
The village
Igbo names for title socieities
Ummuna
What does "Igbo enwe eze" mean?
The Igbo have no king
Highest political unit made up of villages
The town
System in which power was shared among people rather than concentrated in one leader
Republican system
One thing in common between all Igbo societies
Common marketplaces, common deities, common traditions
Igbo name for age grades
Ogbo
Council of linage heads and influential or wealthy men
Authority in village groups
Father or Okpara
The kindred
Lacking leader or chief
System in which each village governs itself
Decentralized
System where power is spread across different institutions
Checks and balances