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

Spanish Empire I (in: Southern Europe) 1516 CE 1715 CE

Ottoman Empire I (in: Anatolia-Caucasus) 1402 CE 1517 CE

La Mula-Sarigua (in: Caribbean) 1300 BCE 200 CE

Kazakh Khanate II (in: Turkestan) 1719 CE 1847 CE

Sakha - Early (in: Siberia) 1400 CE 1632 CE

Alawi Dynasty (in: Maghreb) 1728 CE 1912 CE

Bronze Age Cambodia (in: Mainland Southeast Asia) 1200 BCE 501 BCE

Kingdom of Norway I (in: Northern Europe) 872 CE 1261 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 26068 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 17536 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 376 Polities

Human Sacrifice
357 records

Himyar II: Absent 378 CE 525 CE

Post-Mauryan Kingdoms: Absent 205 BCE 101 BCE

Uigur Khaganate: Present 745 CE 840 CE

Orokaiva - Colonial: Absent 1884 CE 1942 CE

Kansai - Kofun Period: Present 250 CE 537 CE

Umayyad Caliphate: Absent 661 CE 750 CE

Safavid Empire: Absent 1505 CE 1722 CE

Egypt - Dynasty I: Present 3100 BCE 2901 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 
1545 CE 1546 CE (Kanem-Borno)
Ali II Zainami Dunama V Ngumaramma
1831 CE 1832 CE (Imamate of Futa Toro)
Interregnum Yusuf
358 BCE 338 BCE (Achaemenid Empire)
Artaxerxes III Artaxerxes IV
Overturn Intra-Elite Predecessor Assassination
193 CE 211 CE (Roman Empire - Principate)
Septimius Severus Caracalla
Overturn Military Revolt Predecessor Assassination
- (Kingdom of Baol)
Tiande M'Bar
954 CE 986 CE (Carolingian Empire II)
Lothair Louis V, the Sluggard
1649 CE 1653 CE (England Tudor-Stuart)
English Council of State Oliver Cromwell
Overturn Intra-Elite Popular Uprising Separatist Rebellion External Inteference
1486 CE 1490 CE (Bengal Sultanate)
Saif al-Din Firuz Shah Shams al-Din Muzaffar Shah
Overturn Predecessor Assassination

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 
1918 CE 1938 CE (Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
World Wars, First Austrian Republic
Population Decline Epidemic Elite Downward Mobility Uprising Revolution Successful Revolution Civil War Fragmentation Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose Constitution Change
772 CE 778 CE (Medang Kingdom)
Hindu-Buddhist Struggles
Religion Change
900 CE 1000 CE (Monte Alban V Early Postclassic)
Fragmentation of Monte Albán state
Lasted > a Century Fragmentation
1819 CE 1820 CE (Kingdom of Hawaii - Kamehameha Period)
Contact Period
Population Decline Epidemic
1156 CE 1185 CE (Heian)
Rebellion and Civil War
Elite Downward Mobility Uprising Civil War Ruler Depose Constitution Change
1236 CE 1242 CE (Kievan Rus)
Disintegration of the Kievan Rus
Elite Downward Mobility Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Depose
1454 CE 1455 CE (Oirats)
Death of Esen Taishi and internal unrest
Uprising Civil War Ruler Assassination
1727 CE 1757 CE (Alaouite Dynasty I)
Succession Crisis
Uprising Civil War Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose

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, 2003 Terrorism (work) in Mississippi (MS), Meridian: 7 were killed.   Wikipedia

May 1, 1980 Riot (race) in Florida (FL), Miami: 17 were killed.   Hartford Daily Courant Or The Hartford Courant

Dec. 7, 1993 Terrorism in New York (NY), Garden City Park: 6 were killed.   TVPDB: The Violence Project database of mass shootings in the United States (Version 7)

Aug. 1, 1869 Riot (race) in Alabama (AL), Tennessee Valley: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

April 1, 1968 Riot (race) in California (CA), San Francisco: 1 was killed.   Hartford Daily Courant Or The Hartford Courant

Aug. 1, 1833 Riot (labor) in Pennsylvania (PA), Pennsylvania: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

April 1, 1907 Riot (labor) in Ohio (OH), Lorain: 1 was killed.   The New York Times

Jan. 9, 2021 Terrorism in Illinois (IL), Evanston: 5 were killed.   MKADB: (Mass Killings in America 2006 - present) Data from the AP-USA

and 1941 more ...