Seshat: Global History Databank

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Objects

47

Seshat Regions

West Africa (Africa)

Southern Europe (Europe)

East Africa (Africa)

Central Europe (Europe)

Anatolia-Caucasus (Southwest Asia)

Western Europe (Europe)

Iran (Southwest Asia)

North China (East Asia)

and 39 more ... in 10 Macro Regions.

862

Polities

Late Cappadocia (in: Anatolia-Caucasus) 330 BCE 16 CE

Kingdom of Jolof (in: West Africa) 1549 CE 1865 CE

Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom (in: Southern India) 1675 CE 1799 CE

Viet Baiyu Kingdom (in: Mainland Southeast Asia) 332 BCE 109 BCE

Gupta Empire (in: North India) 320 CE 550 CE

Ghur Principality (in: Afghanistan) 1025 CE 1215 CE

Lombard Kingdom (in: Southern Europe) 568 CE 774 CE

Oyo (in: West Africa) 1300 CE 1535 CE

and 854 more ... in 47 Seshat Regions.

Seshat

General Variables
26 variables 8888 records

Alternative Name (Identity and Location)

Polity Peak Years (Temporal Bounds)

Polity Capital (Identity and Location)

Polity Language (Language)

Polity Religion (Religion)

Degree of Centralization (Temporal Bounds)

Succeeding Entity (Supra-cultural relations)

Relationship to Preceding Entity (Supra-cultural relations)

and 18 more ... for 542 Polities

Social Complexity Variables
77 variables 26068 records

Polity Territory (Social Scale)

Polity Population (Social Scale)

Settlement Hierarchy (Hierarchical Complexity)

Irrigation System (Specialized Buildings: polity owned)

Merit Promotion (Bureaucracy Characteristics)

Formal Legal Code (Law)

Road (Transport Infrastructure)

Postal Station (Information / Postal System)

and 69 more ... for 619 Polities

Warfare Variables
49 variables 17536 records

Bronze (Military use of Metals)

Javelin (Projectiles)

Battle Axe (Handheld Weapons)

Sword (Handheld Weapons)

Horse (Animals used in warfare)

Small Vessels (canoes, etc) (Naval technology)

Shield (Armor)

Wooden Palisade (Fortifications)

and 41 more ... for 376 Polities

Human Sacrifice
357 records

Late Xiongnu: Present 59 BCE 99 CE

Hallstatt A-B1: Present 1000 BCE 901 BCE

Great Ming: Absent 1464 CE 1643 CE

Hellenistic Crete: Absent 323 BCE 69 BCE

Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period: Absent 404 BCE 343 BCE

Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Early: Present 1566 CE 1713 CE

Yemen Hijaz: Absent 632 CE 661 CE

French Kingdom - Late Valois: Absent 1450 CE 1588 CE

and 349 more ... coded for 323 Polities

CrisisDB

Power Transitions
Overturn / Intra-Elite / Military Revolt / Popular Uprising / Separatist Rebellion / External Invasion / External Interference / Predecessor Assassination 
1263 CE 1303 CE (Grand Principality of Moscow, Mongolian period)
Daniel of Moscow Yuriy Danilovich
705 BCE 681 BCE (Neo-Assyrian Empire)
Sennacherib Esarhaddon
Overturn Intra-Elite Military Revolt Predecessor Assassination
1833 CE 1846 CE (Kingdom of Jolof)
Albuuri Tam Bakar Kodu Bige
661 CE 680 CE (Umayyad Caliphate)
Muawiya I Yazid I
Intra-Elite Military Revolt
1378 CE 1389 CE (Papal States - Renaissance Period)
Urban VI (Bartolomeo Prignano) Boniface IX (Pietro Tomacelli)
Intra-Elite Predecessor Assassination
1667 CE 1669 CE (Papal States - Early Modern Period II)
Clement IX (Rospigliosi) Clement X (Altieri)
1535 CE 1538 CE (Denyanke Kingdom)
Dengela Koli II unknown
- (Asuka)
Senka Kinmei

and 3439 more ... coded for 264 Polities

Crisis Consequences
Population Decline / Population Collapse / Elite Downward Mobility / Elite Extermination / Uprising / Revolution / Successful Revolution / Civil War / Lasted > a Century / Capital Loss / External Conquest / Ruler Assassination / Ruler Depose / Constitution Change / Labor Change / Unfree Labor Change / Suffrage / Public Goods Change / Religion Change 
1590 CE 1610 CE (Ottoman Empire II)
First Jelali rebellion
Population Decline Epidemic Uprising Ruler Depose
546 BCE 453 BCE (Jin)
Civil War
Elite Downward Mobility Civil War Lasted > a Century Fragmentation External Conquest
1153 CE 1214 CE (Jin Dynasty)
Unrest & flooding
Population Decline Elite Extermination Uprising Civil War External Conquest Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose
1070 BCE (Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)
Collapse of New Kingdom state
Epidemic Uprising Civil War Fragmentation Constitution Change
1725 CE 1873 CE (Hmong - Late Qing)
Hmong uprisings against Qing state
Population Decline Uprising Civil War Lasted > a Century External Conquest
1280 CE 1322 CE (Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate I)
Mongol invasions and rebellions in Mamluk Egypt
Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose
1467 CE (Ashikaga Shogunate)
Transition to Sengoku period
Population Decline Epidemic Elite Downward Mobility Civil War Fragmentation Ruler Assassination Constitution Change
1899 CE 1914 CE (Chuuk - Late Truk)
European Proxy Conflicts
Capital Loss External Conquest Constitution Change

and 161 more ... coded for 153 Polities

🇺🇸 US Political Violence Database
Date / Violence Type / Violence Subtype(s) / Location(s) / Fatalities / Narrative / Source(s)

July 14, 2023 Terrorism in North Dakota (ND), Fargo, Cass: 1 was killed.   Fox News

May 1, 1898 Lynching (race) in North Carolina (NC), Concord: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Sept. 1, 1919 Riot (labor) in New York (NY), Lackawanna: 2 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

July 1, 2008 Assassination (ethnic) in Pennsylvania (PA), Shenandoah: 1 was killed.   The New York Times

July 1, 1946 Lynching (race) in Georgia (GA), Monroe: 4 were killed.   The New York Times

July 1, 1900 Lynching (race) in Alabama (AL), Huntsville: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Dec. 1, 1917 Lynching (race) in Tennessee (TN), Dyersburg: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

April 1, 1894 Lynching (race) in Georgia (GA), Greensboro, Greene: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

and 1941 more ...