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William P Dickson trans. 2009 (1863). The History of Rome. Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.§REF§ Jugurtha described as possessing a treasure-chest.§REF§(Mommsen 1863, 159) Theodore Mommsen. William P Dickson trans. 2009 (1863). The History of Rome. Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.§REF§ Jugurtha's treasures \"were kept in the town of Suthul (afterwards Calama, now Guelma) difficult of access and still more difficult of conquest\".§REF§(Mommsen 1863) Theodore Mommsen. William P Dickson trans. 2009 (1863). The History of Rome. Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.§REF§" }, { "id": 54, "polity": { "id": 542, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_4_copy", "long_name": "Yemen - Ottoman period", "start_year": 1873, "end_year": 1920 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": null, "description": "The sources mention taxation, compensation and stipends: ‘Al-Hadi Sharaf al-Din died in 1890. Al-Mansur Muhammad Hamid al-Din, who was in San’a’ at the time, was called on to take the Imamate and had little option but to leave he city. The sayyids of the Sa’dah area took time to organize themselves around him (al-Mahdi Muhammad was still active at Barat), and meanwhile some hundreds of Hashid chiefs came into San’a’, returning still in receipt of large Turkish stipends (al-Hibshi 1980: 393-9). But the rains then failed, and fighting broke out between the tribes just north-east of San’a’. The sorghum crop was ruined in the summer by locusts and the Turks applied severe pressure to the shaykhs of Hajjah, among other areas, presumably to extract taxes […].’ §REF§Dresch, Paul 1989. “Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen”, 220§REF§ ‘In the west the Imam suffered further setbacks. From the start of the rising certain northern shaykhs were conspicuous in the area, probably fighting around their own landholdings: Nasir Mabkhut al-Ahmar of al-‘Usaymat and Muhsin al-Qayifi of Kharif around Mahwit […]. Zafir Hajjah was finally surrendered after having been held by the Imam’s supporters for a full year. Nasir al-Ahmar admitted that although the water tanks were running dry and his men were exhausted, the surrender itself involved ‘a sum of money’ (shay’ min al-mal). ‘Ali al-Iryani reckoned it at 11,000 riyals (Zabarah 1956:i. 2/81-2), an enormous sum by the standards of the time.’ §REF§Dresch, Paul 1989. “Tribes, Government, and History in Yemen”, 221§REF§" }, { "id": 55, "polity": { "id": 237, "name": "ml_songhai_1", "long_name": "Songhai Empire", "start_year": 1376, "end_year": 1493 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "IFR", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": "EMPTY_COMMENT", "description": null }, { "id": 56, "polity": { "id": 248, "name": "cn_yue_dyn", "long_name": "Yue Kingdom", "start_year": -510, "end_year": -334 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": null, "description": "King Goujian (496-465 BCE) tried to increase the Yue Kingdom's power storing up food and wealth.§REF§(Hsu 1999, 564) Cho-yun Hsu. The Spring and Autumn Period. Michael Loewe. Edward L Shaughnessy. eds. 1999. The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.§REF§" }, { "id": 57, "polity": { "id": 279, "name": "kz_yueban", "long_name": "Yueban", "start_year": 350, "end_year": 450 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "SSP", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "unknown", "comment": null, "description": "The Yueban were part of northern Xiongnu, who inhabited in the upper Hi River during the fourth and fifth centuries.\"§REF§(Li and Hansen 2003, 63) Jian Li. Valerie Hansen. 2003. The glory of the silk road: art from ancient China. The Dayton Art Institute.§REF§ \"From limited references in the Beishi (Northern histories) and the Weishu (History of the Wei), we know that the Yueban had a well-developed kingdom, with a population of two hundred thousand that spanned thousands of kilometers, in the area north of Kucha.\"§REF§(Li and Hansen 2003, 63) Jian Li. Valerie Hansen. 2003. The glory of the silk road: art from ancient China. The Dayton Art Institute.§REF§" }, { "id": 58, "polity": { "id": 516, "name": "eg_old_k_1", "long_name": "Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom", "start_year": -2650, "end_year": -2350 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": "The Treasury was a state department of the Old Kingdom, responsible for revenue collection and distribution. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8252XTHU\">[Papazian_Moreno_García 2013, pp. 70-71]</a> This would have included storerooms for precious goods, and \"the Treasury is often listed as the source of income for officials\". <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/8252XTHU\">[Papazian_Moreno_García 2013, p. 73]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 59, "polity": { "id": 586, "name": "gb_england_norman", "long_name": "Norman England", "start_year": 1066, "end_year": 1153 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": "Norman England maintained centralized treasury rooms to store wealth, particularly in the form of coins, bullion, and valuable objects.\r\nExample: The Royal Treasury at Winchester, established as the central repository for the Crown’s wealth and used for military funding, governance, and royal expenditures. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/MXKV3EU2\">[webpage_Home | Domesday Book]</a>, <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/JISXN2HM\">[Carpenter 2003]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 60, "polity": { "id": 798, "name": "de_east_francia", "long_name": "East Francia", "start_year": 842, "end_year": 919 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": "Monasteries like Fulda maintained treasuries to store wealth in the form of liturgical items, gold, and silver. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/GI5MI52S\">[Riché 1993]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 61, "polity": { "id": 177, "name": "tr_ottoman_emp_4", "long_name": "Ottoman Empire IV", "start_year": 1839, "end_year": 1922 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "TRS", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "present", "comment": "The Ottoman state maintained treasury rooms (hazine) for storing coins, precious metals, jewels, and other valuables in government buildings like the Topkapı Palace. <a class=\"fw-bold\" href=\"https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/V4URRFJX\">[Pamuk 2003]</a>", "description": "" }, { "id": 62, "polity": { "id": 58, "name": "fm_truk_2", "long_name": "Chuuk - Late Truk", "start_year": 1886, "end_year": 1948 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": null, "description": "According to Swartz, Chuukese households stored money and wealth items in their homes: 'In strictly interpersonal disputes between spouses, the wife’s brothers often side with the husband. One morning I heard a young man shouting at his wife that she had lost the key to the locked box she shared with him. (Everyone has a box that can be locked, in which prayer books, money, or other valuables are kept.) As I approached the house, the woman rushed out carrying her infant daughter and followed by her husband, who was brandishing a machete. He shouted “You are very disobedient,” and struck her across the chest with the flat of the machete. The woman staggered back and began to wail that the baby had been cut. Her brother, who was with me, ran to her and began shaking her. “See the price of your disobedience!” he told her. The brother explained afterward that his sister was not virtuous ( mirit) and that she “drove everyone crazy.” The woman’s brothers must also protect a man’s marital rights with their sister if the husband fulfills his obligations to them.' §REF§Swartz, Marc J. 1958. “Sexuality And Aggression On Romonum, Truk”, 472§REF§" }, { "id": 63, "polity": { "id": 86, "name": "in_deccan_ia", "long_name": "Deccan - Iron Age", "start_year": -1200, "end_year": -300 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 64, "polity": { "id": 85, "name": "in_deccan_nl", "long_name": "Deccan - Neolithic", "start_year": -2700, "end_year": -1200 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 65, "polity": { "id": 424, "name": "cn_wei_dyn_warring_states", "long_name": "Early Wei Dynasty", "start_year": -445, "end_year": -225 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 66, "polity": { "id": 496, "name": "ir_elam_2", "long_name": "Elam - Shimashki Period", "start_year": -2028, "end_year": -1940 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "probably unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 67, "polity": { "id": 160, "name": "tr_konya_eba", "long_name": "Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age", "start_year": -3000, "end_year": -2000 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 68, "polity": { "id": 243, "name": "cn_late_shang_dyn", "long_name": "Late Shang", "start_year": -1250, "end_year": -1045 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown. No data.", "description": null }, { "id": 69, "polity": { "id": 420, "name": "cn_longshan", "long_name": "Longshan", "start_year": -3000, "end_year": -1900 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": null, "description": "Unknown. \"Long-distance trade in exotic valuables was a further major development.\" §REF§(Higham 2004, 202)§REF§" }, { "id": 70, "polity": { "id": 384, "name": "in_mahajanapada", "long_name": "Mahajanapada era", "start_year": -600, "end_year": -324 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 71, "polity": { "id": 161, "name": "tr_central_anatolia_mba", "long_name": "Middle Bronze Age in Central Anatolia", "start_year": -2000, "end_year": -1700 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "unknown", "description": null }, { "id": 72, "polity": { "id": 518, "name": "eg_regions", "long_name": "Egypt - Period of the Regions", "start_year": -2150, "end_year": -2016 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "Unknown.", "description": null }, { "id": 73, "polity": { "id": 346, "name": "iq_neo_babylonian_emp", "long_name": "Neo-Babylonian Empire", "start_year": -626, "end_year": -539 }, "year_from": null, "year_to": null, "tag": "UND", "is_disputed": false, "is_uncertain": false, "name": "Store_of_wealth", "store_of_wealth": "uncoded", "comment": "Code the variables below as absent/present/unknown", "description": null } ] }