Home Region:  Central Africa (Africa)

Cwezi Dynasty

G SC PT EQ 2020  ug_bunyoro_k_1 / UgCwezi

Preceding Entity:
No Polity found. Add one here.

Succeeding Entity: Add one more here.
1450 CE 1749 CE Nkore (ug_nkore_k_1)    [population replacement]

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
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Religion Tolerance Coding in Progress.
Human Sacrifice Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions Coding in Progress.

NGA Settlements:

Year Range Cwezi Dynasty (ug_bunyoro_k_1) was in:
Home NGA: None

General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Preceding Entity:
ug_bunyoro_k_1   population replacement   ug_nkore_k_1
 

(Relationship): "Individual settlements were governed by clan chiefs, but around the middle of the 1400s, one of these, Ruhinda, rose to dominance and established himself as mugabe , or paramount ruler over all the Ankole clans." [1] "Prior to the Hinda invasion, Nkore had been a remote district on the marches of the ’empire’ of the Bacwezi. The Bacwezi are so fully legendary that their existence as real men has been seriously doubted by some scholars (Wrighley 1958)." [2] , "Individual settlements were governed by clan chiefs, but around the middle of the 1400s, one of these, Ruhinda, rose to dominance and established himself as mugabe , or paramount ruler over all the Ankole clans." [1] "Prior to the Hinda invasion, Nkore had been a remote district on the marches of the ’empire’ of the Bacwezi. The Bacwezi are so fully legendary that their existence as real men has been seriously doubted by some scholars (Wrighley 1958)." [2]
(Entity): "Similar overlaps were salient in regard to other aspects of culture. Various interlacustrine societies, especially the Bahinda-ruled areas, had basically similar myths of origin, the common mythology being the presumed sojourn in the region of the semi-legendary Bacwezi." [3] "Prior to the Hinda invasion, Nkore had been a remote district on the marches of the ’empire’ of the Bacwezi. The Bacwezi are so fully legendary that their existence as real men has been seriously doubted by some scholars (Wrighley 1958). [...] The reality of Bacwezi rule, despite its ardent critics and more ardent proponents, was almost certainly little more than the dominance of a pastoral clan and their close followers over a vast, thinly populated and sporadically administered region." [2]

[1]: (Middleton 2015: 45) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/collections/GWWIKDDM.

[2]: (Steinhart 1978: 133) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/collections/GWWIKDDM/items/D3FV7SKV/collection.

[3]: (Doornbos 1978: 19) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/collections/GWWIKDDM/items/ISMJWJ4U/collection.


Language
Religion

Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Hierarchical Complexity
Settlement Hierarchy:
4

Administrative Level:
5

Professions
Professional Soldier:
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Professional Military Officer:
absent

Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Market:
present

Transport Infrastructure
Road:
absent

Special-purpose Sites
Ceremonial Site:
present

Information / Writing System
Written Record:
absent

Script:
absent

Phonetic Alphabetic Writing:
absent

Nonwritten Record:
uncoded

Non Phonetic Writing:
absent

Information / Kinds of Written Documents
Scientific Literature:
absent

Sacred Text:
absent

Religious Literature:
absent

Practical Literature:
absent

Philosophy:
absent

History:
absent

Fiction:
absent

Calendar:
absent

Information / Money
Token:
absent

Precious Metal:
absent

Paper Currency:
absent

Indigenous Coin:
absent

Foreign Coin:
absent

Article:
absent

Store Of Wealth:
absent

Debt And Credit Structure:
absent

Information / Postal System
Information / Measurement System
Weight Measurement System:
absent

Volume Measurement System:
absent

Other Measurement System:
absent

Length Measurement System:
absent

Geometrical Measurement System:
absent

Area Measurement System:
absent


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