Home Region: Southern India (South Asia)
Chola Empire
849 CE 1280 CE
Displayed: 850 CE
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General Description This polity was founded in the mid-ninth century CE, when members of the Chola dynasty, centred in the fertile Kaveri delta of Tamil Nadu, began a series of territorial conquests. At their peak in the eleventh century, they ruled over large parts of southern India and north-central Sri Lanka. [1]
[1]: (Mahalakshmi 2016: 1), Mahalakshmi, Rakesh. 2016. ‘Chola (Cola) Empire’. In The Encyclopedia of Empire, edited by John M. MacKenzie, 1st ed., 1–7. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118455074.wbeoe366. Zotero ID: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/ET6Z69AC.
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Broad | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Concern is Primary | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Agentic | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in This Life | Absent | Inferred | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Supernatural Punishment And Reward | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Targeted | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement in Afterlife | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement of Rulers | Present | Confident | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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| Moralizing Enforcement is Certain | Absent | Inferred | 849 CE 1280 CE | ||||||||
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