What is the role of the standing committee chairman? How is he/she chosen?

answer; overt behavior;

it depends on which society you are referring to. many civilization performed rituals so the gods would with their growing season but the most well known is that of the aztecs. they would make sacrifices, usually animals, but sometimes humans as well.

answer; early greeks were econimically stagnant and cut off from other near eastern civilizations;

answer; 35 year old african american man who is also a college graduate;