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GCSE History · key term
An Indigenous community sharing an identity, customs and social or political relationships; its organisation could differ from that of other communities.
Used by Edexcel and OCR
Paper 2
Revise: Indigenous Peoples of the PlainsTribes could be divided into smaller groups called bands. Each band had a chief chosen to help protect it from danger. Among the Sioux, leadership involved several chiefs and councils rather than one ruler commanding the whole people.
Paper 1, Paper 2
One of the ten groups into which Cleisthenes reorganised Athenian citizens, each combining sections from the city, inland and coastal regions.
Use the figures precisely: four tribes became ten; the Council increased from 400 to 500, with 50 councillors from each tribe.
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In 508–507 BC, Cleisthenes secured the replacement of Athens’ four tribes with ten new tribes. These were groups of citizens used to organise political participation, rather than separate states.
One of the four geographical divisions into which Servius divided Rome, distinct from the wealth-based centuries.