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Bengal Sultanate

1338 CE 1538 CE

SC PT EQ 2020  bd_bengal_sultanate / BdBengl

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Preceding Entity:
No Polity found. Add one here.

Succeeding Entity:
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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 Bengal Sultanate (bd_bengal_sultanate) was in:
Home NGA: None

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

Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Population of the Largest Settlement:
100,000 people
1350 CE
Population of the Largest Settlement:
150,000 people
1450 CE
Population of the Largest Settlement:
200,000 people
1500 CE

Polity Territory:
144,000 km2
1500 CE

Hierarchical Complexity
Religious Level:
1

Military Level:
8

Administrative Level:
4

Professions
Source Of Support:
land

Bureaucracy Characteristics
Full Time Bureaucrat:
present

Law
Judge:
present

Formal Legal Code:
present

Court:
present

Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Irrigation System:
present

Utilitarian Public Building:
present

Symbolic Building:
present

Transport Infrastructure
Road:
present

Bridge:
present

Special-purpose Sites
Information / Writing System
Written Record:
present

Script:
present

Phonetic Alphabetic Writing:
present

Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Sacred Text:
present

Religious Literature:
present

Philosophy:
present

History:
uncoded

Information / Money
Paper Currency:
absent

Indigenous Coin:
present

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

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