Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Kinds of Written Documents

Fiction

Talking about kinds of written documents, fiction includes poetry.   (See here)
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Variable Definition
Polity The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s) The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag [Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
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Variable Definition
fiction The absence or presence of fiction for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Fiction Description   Edit
1
(Rouran Khaganate)
300 CE 499 CE
absent
None
2
(Rouran Khaganate)
500 CE 555 CE
present
None
3
(Rouran Khaganate)
500 CE 555 CE
absent
None
4
(Icelandic Commonwealth)
930 CE 1100 CE
absent
None
5
(Icelandic Commonwealth)
1101 CE 1262 CE
present
None
6
(Early Modern Sierra Leone)
1650 CE 1832 CE
absent
None
7
(Buganda)
1700 CE 1859 CE
absent
None
8
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
None
9
(Nkore)
1750 CE 1859 CE
absent
None
10
(Early Modern Sierra Leone)
1833 CE 1896 CE
present
None
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