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Leon & Castille

1230 CE 1715 CE

SC EQ 2020  es_leon_castille / EsLeCas



Preceding Entity:
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Succeeding Entity:
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No General Descriptions provided.

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion
Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
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
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
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:

Year Range Leon & Castille (es_leon_castille) was in:
Home NGA: None

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion

Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Polity Territory:
380,000 km2
1516 CE

in squared kilometers


Polity Population:
4,500,000 people
1516 CE

People.


Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Professional Soldier:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Full-time specialists


Professional Priesthood:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Full-time specialists


Professional Military Officer:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Full-time specialists


Bureaucracy Characteristics
Full Time Bureaucrat:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Full-time specialists


Law
Judge:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Formal Legal Code:
Present
[1230, 1715]


[1]

[1]: Reily 1998 p.305


Court:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Precious Metal:
Present
[1230, 1715]

“A few charters between 1113 and 1120 mention moneda de medietate or coins of half silver and moneda de tercia, that is coins of only one-third silver.” [1]

[1]: Todesca, James, “The Crown Renewed: The Administrative Coinage of Leon-Castille", The Emergence of Leon Castille c 1065-1500, pg. 22


Paper Currency:
Absent
[1230, 1715]

Indigenous Coin:
Present
[1230, 1715]

“In León, Alfonso VI (1065–1109) initiated the kingdom’s rst large-scale denarial coinage probably a er his conquest of Toledo in 1085.” [1]

[1]: Todesca, James, “The Crown Renewed: The Administrative Coinage of Leon-Castille", The Emergence of Leon Castille c 1065-1500, pg. 10


Foreign Coin:
Present
[1230, 1715]

Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System

Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology

Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)

Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.