Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Professions

Professional Military Officer

Talking about professions, professional military officers refer to full-time professional military officers.   (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]
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Variable Definition
professional_military_officer The absence or presence of professional military officer for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Professional Military Officer Description   Edit
1
(Axum I)
149 BCE 320 CE
unknown
None
2
(Axum I)
320 CE 349 CE
present
None
3
(Sasanid Empire II)
488 CE 531 CE
absent
None
4
(Sasanid Empire II)
531 CE 642 CE
present
None
5
(Umayyad Caliphate)
661 CE 682 CE
absent
None
6
(Umayyad Caliphate)
683 CE 750 CE
present
None
7
(Jenne-jeno IV)
900 CE 1000 CE
absent
None
8
(Icelandic Commonwealth)
930 CE 1200 CE
absent
None
9
(Early Mongols)
1000 CE 1185 CE
present
None
10
(Jenne-jeno IV)
1001 CE 1300 CE
present
None
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