What items does almost every society have?

Answer 1

All societies have had:

• people
• "thinkers" vs. "doers"; leaders and followers
• a type of "religion" or a set of beliefs in a "power bigger than humans" (could have been pagan beliefs or more religious beliefs)
• "levels" of people (rich vs. poor, haves vs. have-nots)
• contact with animals or fish
• relationships and human contact (not sexual)
• sexual reproduction, continuation of mankind
• places that people lived (caves, houses, villages, communities)
• the need for food and water
• places people kept animals and foods such as grains
• farming or gathering of food
• conflicts (personal or national, e.g. internal war) and eventual resolutions
• a government or ruling body
• a set of laws or rules
• a form or way of raising money, e.g. "taxes"
• a form of accepted and recognized currency
• different forms of occupations
• a form of trade (bartering)
• a form of commerce (buying, selling)
• conflict.

Answer 2

Almost every society has tools for hunting and gathering, some form of social organization, and a system of communication, whether verbal or non-verbal.