| 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 | Units |
|---|---|---|
| polity_territory_from | The lower range of polity territory for a polity. | km squared |
| polity_territory_to | The upper range of polity territory for a polity. | km squared |
| # | Polity | Year(s) | Polity Territory from | Polity Territory to | Description | Edit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 461 |
(Susa II) |
Full Year Range of Susa II is assumed. [-3800, -3100] |
None |
None |
in squared kilometers "It is possible then that the Middle Uruk settlements on the Susiana located more than about 20 kilometers from a major administrative center were only marginally articulated with a central Susiana-administered settlement system. This would have placed the boundaries of an integrated settlement system including the major centers of Susa, Abu Fanduweh, and Chogha Mish within the Susiana rather than, as I have often assumed, between the Susiana and adajacent areas." [Hole 1987, p. 116] what does author mean by "within the Susiana?" - Susiana Plain? Godin Tepe and Tepe Sialk in the west "like the early Sumerians, the Susians in this period became colonizers. They spread out along routes that led them to Godin Tepe and Tepe Sialk in west central Iran, organizing a trade network in which the agricultural wealth of Susa and its 'colonies' was exchanged for precious minerals from even more remote regions." [Louvre 1992, p. 4] Fars in the east "The prehistoric inhabitants of Fars, on the plateau to the southeast, seem to have been on the margin of the Susian expansion. There the village cultures had died out at the same time as that of Susa I (around 3700), and the villagers perhaps became nomads." [Louvre 1992, p. 4] |
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| 462 |
(Five Dynasties Period) |
Full Year Range of Five Dynasties Period is assumed. [906, 970] |
None |
None |
None | |
| 463 |
(Susa III) |
Full Year Range of Susa III is assumed. [-3100, -2675] |
None |
None |
in squared kilometers In Susa III Susa was the "centre of greatest economic activity in literate Iran" and Tal-i Malyan did not annex Susa. [Potts 2016, p. 71] Shahr-i Sokhta is a long way east - on the Iran-Afghan border "Proto-Elamite influence even spread across the great eastern desert of Lut to Shahr-i Sokhta, where the Proto-Elamite accounting system is found in use by people whose cultural affinities lay not with the Proto-Elamite world but with the inhabitants of Turkmenia and the region south of the Hindu Kush mountain range." [Louvre 1992, p. 4] "The federal system of Elam was composed of several major kingdoms (the Kassite, the Guti, the Lullubi, Susiana, and Elamite), all being of the same racial group of the pre-Aryan people. The Elamite over-lordship in Susa was the main power of the federated states, the heads of which frequently assembled for political and military purposes." [Farazmand 2001, p. 535] |
|
| 464 |
(Ur - Dynasty III) |
Full Year Range of Ur - Dynasty III is assumed. [-2112, -2004] |
None |
None |
in squared kilometers Susa within boundaries of empire of the Third Dynasty of Ur according to map on p.157 Liverani (2014). The region is marked "internal land" that is "under direct control of the empire." [Liverani_Tabatabai 2014, p. 157] |
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| 465 |
(Akan - Pre-Ashanti) |
Full Year Range of Akan - Pre-Ashanti is assumed. [1501, 1701] |
None |
None |
None | |
| 466 |
(Italian Kingdom Late Antiquity) |
Full Year Range of Italian Kingdom Late Antiquity is assumed. [476, 489] |
None |
None |
None | |
| 468 |
(Republic of Venice III) |
Full Year Range of Republic of Venice III is assumed. [1204, 1563] |
None |
None |
in squared kilometers Po Valley, Italian peninsula: Padua, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, the Friuli, Brescia, Bergamo. Crete, Ionian islands, Cyprus. [Viggiano_Dursteler 2013, p. 51] |
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