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

Konya Plain - Ceramic Neolithic (in: Anatolia-Caucasus) 7000 BCE 6600 BCE

Kalabhra Dynasty (in: Southern India) 200 CE 600 CE

Kingdom of Saba and Dhu Raydan (in: Arabia) 110 BCE 149 CE

Axum III (in: East Africa) 600 CE 800 CE

Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty (in: Central Europe) 919 CE 1125 CE

Kingdom of Norway II (in: Northern Europe) 1262 CE 1396 CE

Yehuda (in: Levant) 141 BCE 63 BCE

Democratic Republic of the Congo (in: Central Africa) 1960 CE 2020 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

Qajar Dynasty: Absent 1794 CE 1925 CE

Geometric Crete: Present 1000 BCE 711 BCE

Postpalatial Crete: Present 1300 BCE 1201 BCE

Ayyubid Sultanate: Absent 1171 CE 1250 CE

Late Angkor: Absent 1220 CE 1431 CE

Monte Alban II: Present 100 BCE 199 CE

Ottoman Empire I: Absent 1421 CE 1516 CE

Andronovo: Absent 1800 BCE 1401 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 
1849 CE 1851 CE (Bamana kingdom)
Nalouma Kouma Diara Massala Demba Diara
- (Asuka)
Empress Suiko Jomei
Overturn Intra-Elite Predecessor Assassination
1902 CE 1910 CE (British Empire II)
Edward VII George V
1666 CE 1694 CE (Safavid Empire)
Safi II / Suleiman I Sultan Husayn
670 CE 700 CE (Pandya Dynasty)
Arikesari Marvarman Kochchddaiyan Randhir
External Invasion External Inteference
1574 CE 1576 CE (Saadi Sultanate)
Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik
Overturn External Invasion External Inteference
902 CE 908 CE (Abbasid Caliphate I)
Al-Muktafi Al-Muqtadir
Intra-Elite
1093 CE 1113 CE (Kievan Rus)
Sviatopolk II Vladimir II Monomakh

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 
1644 CE 1683 CE (Great Ming)
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Population Decline Epidemic Uprising Revolution Civil War Capital Loss External Conquest Ruler Depose
1568 CE 1609 CE (Spanish Empire I)
Eighty Years' War and plague in Habsburg Spain
Population Decline Epidemic Constitution Change
1524 CE 1589 CE (Safavid Empire)
Sixteenth-century crisis in the Safavid Empire
Elite Extermination Civil War Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Depose
1070 BCE (Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)
Collapse of New Kingdom state
Epidemic Uprising Civil War Fragmentation Constitution Change
1848 CE 1867 CE (Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
Habsburg Empire Revolution
Elite Downward Mobility Uprising Revolution Constitution Change Unfree Labor Change
20 BCE 6 CE (Armenian Kingdom)
Civil War and collapse
Uprising Civil War External Conquest Ruler Assassination
1000 CE 1150 CE (Late Tiwanaku)
Collapse of Tiwanaku Empire
Population Decline Population Collapse Capital Loss
74 BCE 63 BCE (Hellenistic Crete)
Mithridatic Wars
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)

Nov. 1, 1870 Riot (political) in Louisiana (LA), Baton Rouge: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

March 1, 1899 Riot (labor) in Alabama (AL), Birmingham: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

March 1, 1892 Riot (race) in New York (NY), Niagara Falls: 3 were killed.   The New York Times

Dec. 1, 1863 Lynching (extralegal) in California (CA), Los Angeles: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

July 1, 1855 Riot (ethnic) in Ohio (OH), Columbus: 1 was killed.   Hartford Daily Courant Or The Hartford Courant

Jan. 1, 1910 Riot (race) in West Virginia (WV), Keystone: 1 was killed. -

April 1, 1881 Riot (political) in New York (NY), Troy: 6 were killed.   Hartford Daily Courant Or The Hartford Courant

Oct. 1, 1893 Riot (race) in Virginia (VA), Roanoke: 3 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

and 1941 more ...