French: sentenceEnglish translation: internal power struggles 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | French term or phrase: | contestation des hiérarchies | | English translation: | internal power struggles | | Entered by: | Yolanda Broad |
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Art/Literary - Archaeology / archaeology | | French term or phrase: sentence | Cette contestation des hiérarchies pourrait expliquer que le stade des chefferies n\'est jamais dépassé.
Bronze Age \'politics\' |
| | | These internal power struggles may explain why it is that | Explanation:
[what ever it was] never developed beyond the stage of petty chiefdoms.
I.e., the energies of the society were so consumed by fratricidal (figuratively or literally) power stuggles that power was never suffiently concentrated to allow for a larger political unit to emerge, and nothing larger than a "chiefdom" ("petty" emphasises the lowly status of the term) could be formed.
Similar occurances can be seen in various periods : the Greek city-states (*relatively* speaking, "petty chiefdoms") never gave up their fratricidal quarrelling and became anything like a unified "state" until the time of the conquest by Alexander.
And the "Merovingian" period (6th-8th centuries) in France was marked by endless fratricidal (literally) power struggles which kept the "kingdom" --which was a kingdom in name only-- from becomming a truely united political unit until the comming of the Carolingian dynasty and, especially, of Charlemage.
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Note added at 2003-07-21 15:31:30 (GMT)
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Should be : \"...internal power stuggles *among the elites*...\"
Or, whoever it was that was engaged in these \"contestations\".
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Christopher Crockett
United States
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4 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 |
| My version
Explanation:
This contestation of the hierarchies might explain why the society never progressed beyond the level of chiefdoms.
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| William Stein
United States
Native speaker of:  English
PRO pts in category: 16
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4 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1 |
| This contention for mastery might explain why rural fiefdoms still exist
Explanation:
my solution
| Charon
Germany
Native speaker of:  German
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18 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2 |
| These internal power struggles may explain why it is that
Explanation:
[what ever it was] never developed beyond the stage of petty chiefdoms.
I.e., the energies of the society were so consumed by fratricidal (figuratively or literally) power stuggles that power was never suffiently concentrated to allow for a larger political unit to emerge, and nothing larger than a "chiefdom" ("petty" emphasises the lowly status of the term) could be formed.
Similar occurances can be seen in various periods : the Greek city-states (*relatively* speaking, "petty chiefdoms") never gave up their fratricidal quarrelling and became anything like a unified "state" until the time of the conquest by Alexander.
And the "Merovingian" period (6th-8th centuries) in France was marked by endless fratricidal (literally) power struggles which kept the "kingdom" --which was a kingdom in name only-- from becomming a truely united political unit until the comming of the Carolingian dynasty and, especially, of Charlemage.
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Note added at 2003-07-21 15:31:30 (GMT)
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Should be : \"...internal power stuggles *among the elites*...\"
Or, whoever it was that was engaged in these \"contestations\".
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24 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 |
| This hierarchical dispute could explain why
Explanation:
the society never moved past the age of chiefdoms.
I guess it was easier to have one despotic type of ruler rather than a more complocated layered leadership model
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Note added at 26 mins (2003-07-21 15:36:16 GMT)
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Complicated- sorry, typo
|  roneill
United States
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| This hierarchical jockeing could explain why the chiefdom model is never abandoned
Explanation:
From what I understand the sentence is saying that in a hierarchical model(or layered power structure), people kept challenging each other or jockeying for position (to "jockey" is to maneuver for a certain position or advantage), and that therefore the chiefdom model (where one person had absolute power) proved to have the most staying power in this era.
| Carolingua
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| This contest for hierarchy might explain why xxx never progressed beyond the level of chiefdoms
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I agree with the gist of the first answer, but would express it slightly differently
| mportal
United Kingdom
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The translation workplace 
