Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Social Scale

Polity Population

Talking about social scale, polity population is the estimated population of the polity; can change as a result of both adding/losing new territories or by population growth/decline within a region (See here)

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Variable	Definition
Polity	The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s)	The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag	[Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
polity_population_from	The lower range of polity population for a polity.
polity_population_to	The upper range of polity population for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Polity Population from	Polity Population to	Description	Edit
21	(Western Zhou)	956 BCE 795 BCE	13500000	13500000	None
22	(Yisrael)	900 BCE	50000	300000	None
23	(Yisrael)	800 BCE 722 BCE	300000	400000	None
24	(Deccan - Iron Age)	599 BCE 300 BCE	20000	25000	None
25	(Achaemenid Empire)	500 BCE	20000000	26000000	None
26	(Early Roman Republic)	500 BCE	100000	100000	None
27	(Achaemenid Empire)	400 BCE	17000000	35000000	None
28	(Early Roman Republic)	400 BCE	150000	150000	None
29	(Early Xiongnu)	400 BCE 300 BCE	50000	100000	None
30	(Macedonian Empire)	359 BCE 336 BCE	1000000	1000000	None

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