Gun, Germs and Steel, what is one important impact of domesticating animals on the relationships between people in society regarding state...

I would turn to Chapter Eleven if I were you and look at
the way in which proximity to large numbers of domestic animals meant that populations
gained a resistence to diseases which therefore led them to carrying such diseases to
the new countries that they "discovered" with an absolutely lethal impact. It is clear
that this gave European societies a real "edge" in terms of their dominance over other
societies, and not just in the New World of the Americas, as the following quote makes
clear:

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Eurasian germs played a key role in decimating
native peoples in many other parts of the world, including Pacific islanders, Aboriginal
Australians, and the Khoisan peoples... of southern Africa. Cumulative mortalities of
these previously unexposed peoples from Eurasian germs ranged from 50 percent to 100
percent.

This clearly
indicates that although domesitcating animals was of course important for many societies
in terms of their development and the ability to farm more effectively and transport, by
far the biggest (and most unknown) advantage was the diseases that such a close
proximity to animals brought with it.