Seshat: Global History Databank

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Objects

47

Seshat Regions

West Africa (Africa)

Southern Europe (Europe)

East Africa (Africa)

Central Europe (Europe)

Anatolia-Caucasus (Southwest Asia)

Western Europe (Europe)

Iran (Southwest Asia)

North China (East Asia)

and 39 more ... in 10 Macro Regions.

862

Polities

Tokugawa Shogunate (in: Northeast Asia) 1603 CE 1868 CE

Kashmiri Sultanate (in: North India) 1346 CE 1580 CE

Shuar - Ecuadorian (in: Amazonia) 1831 CE 1931 CE

Kingdom of Jolof (in: West Africa) 1549 CE 1865 CE

Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period (in: Northeast Africa) 1720 BCE 1567 BCE

Elam III (in: Iran) 612 BCE 539 BCE

Early Qing (in: North China) 1644 CE 1796 CE

Vanga Dynasty (in: Eastern South Asia) 550 CE 600 CE

and 854 more ... in 47 Seshat Regions.

Seshat

General Variables
26 variables 8888 records

Alternative Name (Identity and Location)

Polity Peak Years (Temporal Bounds)

Polity Capital (Identity and Location)

Polity Language (Language)

Polity Religion (Religion)

Degree of Centralization (Temporal Bounds)

Succeeding Entity (Supra-cultural relations)

Relationship to Preceding Entity (Supra-cultural relations)

and 18 more ... for 542 Polities

Social Complexity Variables
77 variables 26069 records

Polity Territory (Social Scale)

Polity Population (Social Scale)

Settlement Hierarchy (Hierarchical Complexity)

Irrigation System (Specialized Buildings: polity owned)

Merit Promotion (Bureaucracy Characteristics)

Formal Legal Code (Law)

Road (Transport Infrastructure)

Postal Station (Information / Postal System)

and 69 more ... for 619 Polities

Warfare Variables
49 variables 17537 records

Bronze (Military use of Metals)

Javelin (Projectiles)

Battle Axe (Handheld Weapons)

Sword (Handheld Weapons)

Horse (Animals used in warfare)

Small Vessels (canoes, etc) (Naval technology)

Shield (Armor)

Wooden Palisade (Fortifications)

and 41 more ... for 377 Polities

Human Sacrifice
357 records

Kingdom of Norway II: Absent 1263 CE 1380 CE

Great Ming: Transitional (Present -> Absent) 1368 CE 1463 CE

Hmong - Late Qing: Absent 1701 CE 1895 CE

Pre-Ceramic Period: Unknown 7800 BCE 7201 BCE

Yemen - Tahirid Dynasty: Absent 1454 CE 1517 CE

Oaxaca - San Jose: Absent 1150 BCE 701 BCE

Bamana kingdom: Present 1712 CE 1818 CE

Lysimachus Kingdom: Absent 300 BCE 282 BCE

and 349 more ... coded for 323 Polities

CrisisDB

Power Transitions
Overturn / Intra-Elite / Military Revolt / Popular Uprising / Separatist Rebellion / External Invasion / External Interference / Predecessor Assassination 
1218 CE 1243 CE (Late Angkor)
Indravarman II Jayavarman VIII
1136 CE 1160 CE (Seljuk Sultanate)
Al-Muqtafi Al-Mustanjid
1804 CE 1824 CE (Ashanti Empire)
Osei Tutu Kwame Asiba Osei Yaw Akoto
1835 CE 1836 CE (Early United Mexican States)
Miguel Barragán José Justo Corro
- (Eastern Jin Dynasty)
An of Jin (Sima Dezong, Jìn Ān Dì) Gong of Jin (Sima Dewen, Jìn Gōng Dì)
Overturn Intra-Elite Predecessor Assassination
842 CE 882 CE (Kievan Rus)
Askold and Dir Oleg the Seer
Overturn External Invasion Predecessor Assassination
1617 CE 1618 CE (Ottoman Empire II)
Mustafa I Osman II
Overturn Intra-Elite
2189 BCE 2168 BCE (Akkadian Empire)
Dudu Shu-turul
External Invasion

and 3439 more ... coded for 264 Polities

Crisis Consequences
Population Decline / Population Collapse / Elite Downward Mobility / Elite Extermination / Uprising / Revolution / Successful Revolution / Civil War / Lasted > a Century / Capital Loss / External Conquest / Ruler Assassination / Ruler Depose / Constitution Change / Labor Change / Unfree Labor Change / Suffrage / Public Goods Change / Religion Change 
1140 CE 1190 CE (Seljuk Sultanate)
Decline of Seljuq Empire
Uprising Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Depose
150 CE 224 CE (Parthian Empire II)
Fall of the Parthian Empire
Epidemic Civil War External Conquest Ruler Assassination
1524 CE 1589 CE (Safavid Empire)
Sixteenth-century crisis in the Safavid Empire
Elite Extermination Civil War Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Depose
1200 BCE 1150 BCE (Phoenician Empire)
Late Bronze Age Collapse
800 CE 900 CE (Classic Maya)
Classic Maya collapse
Population Decline Population Collapse Epidemic Lasted > a Century Fragmentation Capital Loss
1866 CE 1868 CE (Tokugawa Shogunate)
Meiji Restoration
Population Decline Epidemic Elite Downward Mobility Uprising Revolution Successful Revolution Civil War Ruler Depose Constitution Change
551 CE (Rouran Khaganate)
Overthrow of Rouran Khaganate by Turkic peoples
Elite Downward Mobility Elite Extermination External Conquest
1200 BCE 1180 BCE (Hatti - New Kingdom)
Bronze Age Collapse, Hatti
Elite Downward Mobility Capital Loss External Conquest

and 161 more ... coded for 153 Polities

🇺🇸 US Political Violence Database
Date / Violence Type / Violence Subtype(s) / Location(s) / Fatalities / Narrative / Source(s)

July 1, 2013 Terrorism (economic) in Florida (FL), Miami: 7 were killed.   Reuters

July 1, 1920 Riot (labor) in West Virginia (WV), Roderfield: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

July 1, 1877 Riot (labor) in Pennsylvania (PA), Shamokin: 2 were killed.   Wynning History

March 1, 1910 Lynching (race) in Texas (TX), Dallas: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Oct. 1, 1868 Lynching (section) in Arkansas (AR), Monticello: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

July 1, 1886 Riot (labor) in Kansas (KS), Wyandotte: 2 were killed.   The New York Times

May 3, 1982 Terrorism in Alaska (AK), Anchorage: 4 were killed.   TVPDB: The Violence Project database of mass shootings in the United States (Version 7)

Jan. 1, 1859 Lynching (extralegal) in Louisiana (LA), Attakapas: 5 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

and 1941 more ...