Home Region: North China (East Asia)
Qin Empire
338 BCE 207 BCE
Displayed: 218 BCE
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Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion
Social Scale
| 350,000 people | 300 BCE |
| 200,000 people | 200 BCE |
| 200,000 people | 100 BCE |
| 340,000 km2 | 290 BCE |
| 820,000 km2 | 270 BCE |
| 1,300,000 km2 | 250 BCE |
| 1,967,000 km2 | 230 BCE |
| 2,433,000 km2 | 210 BCE |
| 40,000,000 people | 207 BCE |
| 1100 |
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information
/ Writing System
Information
/ Kinds of Written Documents
Information
/ Money
Information
/ Postal System
Information
/ Measurement System
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Coding in Progress.
Religion Variables
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.
NGA Settlements:
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Home NGA: None
General Variables
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Social Complexity Variables
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| Population of the Largest Settlement | 350,000 people | Confident | 300 BCE | ||||||||
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| Population of the Largest Settlement | 200,000 people | Confident | 200 BCE | ||||||||
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| Population of the Largest Settlement | 200,000 people | Confident | 100 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 340,000 km2 | Confident | 290 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 820,000 km2 | Confident | 270 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 1,300,000 km2 | Confident | 250 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 1,967,000 km2 | Confident | 230 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Territory | 2,433,000 km2 | Confident | 210 BCE | ||||||||
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| Polity Population | 40,000,000 people | Confident | 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Largest Communication Distance | 1100 | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Professional Soldier | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Professional Priesthood | Absent | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Professional Military Officer | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Source Of Support | land | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Source Of Support | state salary | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Specialized Government Building | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Merit Promotion | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Full Time Bureaucrat | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Examination System | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Market | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Irrigation System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Food Storage Site | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Drinking Water Supply System | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Communal Building | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Utilitarian Public Building | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Symbolic Building | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Knowledge Or Information Building | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Entertainment Building | Absent | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Special Purpose House | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Mines or Quarry | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Written Record | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Script | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Phonetic Alphabetic Writing | Absent | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Nonwritten Record | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Non Phonetic Writing | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Mnemonic Device | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Scientific Literature | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Sacred Text | Absent | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Religious Literature | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Practical Literature | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Philosophy | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Lists Tables and Classification | Uncoded | Undecided | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| History | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Fiction | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Calendar | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Token | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Precious Metal | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Paper Currency | Absent | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Indigenous Coin | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Foreign Coin | Absent | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Article | Unknown | Suspected | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Debt And Credit Structure | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Postal Station | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| General Postal Service | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Courier | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Weight Measurement System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Volume Measurement System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Time Measurement System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Length Measurement System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Geometrical Measurement System | Present | Inferred | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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| Area Measurement System | Present | Confident | 338 BCE 207 BCE | ||||||||
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Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
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Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Religion Variables
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Crisis Cases
Instability Data
Power Transitions