| Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region. |
| The region was dominated by confederacies of Mixtec and Zapotec royal families, who constantly expanded their control through marriage alliances. |
| Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part. |
| Sudden dissolution of steppe confederacies therefore became much less likely. |
| Some systems were matriarchal, while others were based on confederacies of several nations joining together for their mutual benefit. |
| The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies. |
