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Five Dynasties Period

906 CE 970 CE
EQ 2020  cn_five_dyn / Cn5Dyna
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  General Description  
Five Dynasties Period is an "intercycle quasipolity," referring to the period of disunity and instability in China between the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. An alternative name is The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Identity and Location Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Temporal Bounds Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Political and Cultural Relations Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Language Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Linguistic Family Sino-Tibetan 906 CE  970 CE
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Language Chinese 906 CE  970 CE
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Religion Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Polity Territory 906 CE  970 CE
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Polity Population 906 CE  970 CE
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Hierarchical Complexity Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Settlement Hierarchy 906 CE  970 CE
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Military Level 906 CE  970 CE
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Administrative Level 906 CE  970 CE
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Professions Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Professional Soldier 906 CE  970 CE
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Professional Priesthood 906 CE  970 CE
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Professional Military Officer 906 CE  970 CE
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Bureaucracy Characteristics Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Specialized Government Building 906 CE  970 CE
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Merit Promotion 906 CE  970 CE
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Full Time Bureaucrat 906 CE  970 CE
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Examination System 906 CE  970 CE
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Law Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Specialized Buildings: polity owned Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Market 906 CE  970 CE
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Food Storage Site 906 CE  970 CE
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Transport Infrastructure Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Road 906 CE  970 CE
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Port 906 CE  970 CE
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Canal 906 CE  970 CE
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Special-purpose Sites Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Information / Writing System Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Written Record Present 906 CE  970 CE
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Script Present 906 CE  970 CE
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Information / Kinds of Written Documents Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Information / Money Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Token 906 CE  970 CE
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Precious Metal 906 CE  970 CE
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Paper Currency 906 CE  970 CE
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Indigenous Coin 906 CE  970 CE
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Article 906 CE  970 CE
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Information / Postal System Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Postal Station 906 CE  970 CE
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General Postal Service 906 CE  970 CE
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Information / Measurement System Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Military use of Metals Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Projectiles Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Handheld weapons Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Animals used in warfare Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Armor Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Naval technology Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Religion Variables
Moralizing Supernatural Punishment and Reward Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Moralizing Enforcement is Broad 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Supernatural Concern is Primary 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Agentic 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement in This Life 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Supernatural Punishment And Reward 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Religion Adopted by Commoners 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Targeted 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement in Afterlife 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Religion Adopted by Elites 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement of Rulers 906 CE  970 CE
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Moralizing Enforcement is Certain 906 CE  970 CE
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Human Sacrifice Five Dynasties Period (cn_five_dyn)
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Instability Data
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