Journal of Ancient History . 1982. No 2. If at a late stage of development of the primitive system, extensive tribal associations are sometimes created (tribal unions, (Confederate) , The first states are always and everywhere formed in a small volume. Namely , in the amount of one territorial community or - more often - several , Closely related communities . Such a state, in order to be sustainable, should, as far as possible, have some natural boundaries: the mountains bordering the valley, the sea surrounding the island or peninsula, the desert surrounding the space irrigated by one main channel, and t. p. Such a clearly distinguishable area of the formation of statehood, we will conditionally call n about m .