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

Maukhari Dynasty (in: Southern India) 550 CE 605 CE

Kalingga Kingdom (in: Maritime Southeast Asia) 500 CE 732 CE

Meroe (in: Northeast Africa) 600 BCE 300 BCE

Whydah (in: West Africa) 1671 CE 1727 CE

Proto-French Kingdom (in: Western Europe) 987 CE 1150 CE

Rouran Khaganate (in: Mongolia) 300 CE 555 CE

Spanish Empire II (in: Southern Europe) 1716 CE 1814 CE

Ethiopia Kingdom III (in: East Africa) 1769 CE 1854 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 26062 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

Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period: Absent 1820 CE 1898 CE

East Roman Empire: Absent 395 CE 631 CE

Proto-French Kingdom: Absent 987 CE 1149 CE

Chenla: Absent 550 CE 825 CE

Buyid Confederation: Absent 947 CE 1055 CE

Kansai - Yayoi Period: Present 300 BCE 249 CE

Hatti - Old Kingdom: Present 1650 BCE 1501 BCE

Indo-Greek Kingdom: Absent 145 BCE 96 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 
973 CE 974 CE (Rome - Republic of St Peter II)
Benedict VI Benedict VII
Overturn Intra-Elite Predecessor Assassination
1708 CE 1710 CE (Mutapa)
Sacapio João Nyamhandu
Overturn Intra-Elite
1335 CE 1336 CE (Ilkhanate)
Arpa Musa
Overturn Intra-Elite Military Revolt External Invasion Predecessor Assassination
257 BCE 247 BCE (Anurādhapura I)
Mahasiva Suratissa
1775 CE 1799 CE (Papal States - Early Modern Period II)
Pius IV (Giovanni Angelo Braschi) Pius VII (Barnaba Chiaramonti)
Overturn External Invasion
882 CE 884 CE (Carolingian Empire II)
Carloman II Charles II, the Fat
- (Papal States - High Medieval Period)
Urban IV (Jacques Pantaleon) Clement IV (Guy Foulques)
Intra-Elite Separatist Rebellion
1872 CE 1876 CE (Early United Mexican States)
Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada Porfirio Díaz
Overturn Intra-Elite Military Revolt

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 
150 CE 224 CE (Parthian Empire II)
Fall of the Parthian Empire
Epidemic Civil War External Conquest Ruler Assassination
877 CE 888 CE (Carolingian Empire II)
Fragmentation of Carolingian Rule
Uprising Civil War Fragmentation Constitution Change
1644 CE 1683 CE (Great Ming)
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Population Decline Epidemic Uprising Revolution Civil War Capital Loss External Conquest Ruler Depose
1221 CE 1232 CE (Kamakura Shogunate)
Jōkyū Civil War
Elite Downward Mobility Elite Extermination Civil War
1200 CE (Khwarezmid Empire)
Tekish dies
Elite Extermination Uprising
1419 CE 1434 CE (Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty)
Hussite Wars
Population Decline Uprising Revolution Civil War Ruler Depose Religion Change
1670 CE 1701 CE (Akan - Pre-Ashanti)
Separatist Rebellion
Elite Downward Mobility Uprising Constitution Change
1568 CE 1609 CE (Spanish Empire I)
Eighty Years' War and plague in Habsburg Spain
Population Decline Epidemic Constitution Change

and 161 more ... coded for 153 Polities

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

May 1, 1871 Assassination (political, race) in South Carolina (SC), Newberry: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

April 1, 1883 Lynching (race) in North Carolina (NC), Windsor: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Feb. 1, 1915 Riot (labor) in West Virginia (WV), Farmington: 1 was killed.   Hartford Daily Courant Or The Hartford Courant

Sept. 1, 1904 Lynching (extralegal) in Alabama (AL), Huntsville: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

June 1, 1863 Riot (section) in Indiana (IN), Rush: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Jan. 1, 1881 Lynching (extralegal) in California (CA), Bodie: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Aug. 1, 1911 Riot (labor) in UNKNOWN (UNK), Cleveland: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Jan. 1, 1923 Riot (race) in Kentucky (KY), Cory: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

and 1941 more ...