Home Region:  Iran (Southwest Asia)

Median Persian Empire

SC EQ 2020  ir_median_emp / IrMedes

Preceding Entity:
No Polity found. Add one here.

Succeeding Entity:
No Polity found. Add one here.

No General Descriptions provided.

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

Largest Communication Distance:
[1,500 to 2,000]

Hierarchical Complexity
Settlement Hierarchy:
4

Administrative Level:
[4 to 5]

Professions
Professional Soldier:
present

Professional Priesthood:
present

Bureaucracy Characteristics
Merit Promotion:
uncoded

Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Irrigation System:
present

Food Storage Site:
present

Communal Building:
present

Utilitarian Public Building:
present

Symbolic Building:
present

Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Script:
present

Phonetic Alphabetic Writing:
uncoded

Nonwritten Record:
present

Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Information / Money
Article:
present

Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Other Measurement System:
uncoded


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.
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.