Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Professions

Professional Soldier

Talking about professions, professional soldiers refer to full-time professional soldiers.   (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
professional_soldier The absence or presence of professional soldier for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Professional Soldier Description   Edit
1
(Early Roman Republic)
500 BCE
absent
None
2
(Early Roman Republic)
400 BCE
present
None
3
(Early Roman Republic)
400 BCE
absent
None
4
(Early Roman Republic)
300 BCE
absent
None
5
(Early Roman Republic)
300 BCE
present
None
6
(Middle Roman Republic)
200 BCE
present
None
7
(Middle Roman Republic)
200 BCE
absent
None
8
(Axum I)
149 BCE 1 BCE
absent
None
9
(Late Roman Republic)
100 BCE
absent
None
10
(Late Roman Republic)
100 BCE
present
None
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