Home Region:  Iran (Southwest Asia)

Median Persian Empire

715 BCE 550 BCE

SC EQ 2020  ir_median_emp / IrMedes

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Preceding Entity:
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Succeeding Entity:
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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
Religion Tolerance Coding in Progress.
Human Sacrifice Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions Coding in Progress.

NGA Settlements:

Year Range Median Persian Empire (ir_median_emp) 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:
[2,500,000 to 3,000,000] km2
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Largest Communication Distance:
[1,500 to 2,000]
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Hierarchical Complexity
Settlement Hierarchy:
4
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Administrative Level:
[4 to 5]
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Professions
Professional Soldier:
present
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Professional Priesthood:
present
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Bureaucracy Characteristics
Merit Promotion:
uncoded
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Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Irrigation System:
present
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Food Storage Site:
present
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Communal Building:
present
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Utilitarian Public Building:
present
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Symbolic Building:
present
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Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Script:
present
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Phonetic Alphabetic Writing:
uncoded
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Nonwritten Record:
present
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Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Article:
present
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Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Other Measurement System:
uncoded
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Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Human Sacrifice Data
Human Sacrifice is the deliberate and ritualized killing of a person to please or placate supernatural entities (including gods, spirits, and ancestors) or gain other supernatural benefits.
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Cases
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Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
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Coding in Progress.