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

Kingdom of Georgia II (in: Anatolia-Caucasus) 975 CE 1243 CE

Amorite Babylonia (in: Mesopotamia) 2000 BCE 1600 BCE

Spanish Empire I (in: Southern Europe) 1516 CE 1715 CE

Southern Song (in: South China) 1127 CE 1279 CE

Papal States - High Medieval Period (in: Southern Europe) 1198 CE 1309 CE

Shiwei (in: Mongolia) 600 CE 1000 CE

Harsha's Empire (in: North India) 606 CE 647 CE

Spanish Empire II (in: Southern Europe) 1716 CE 1814 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

Phrygian Kingdom: Absent 900 BCE 696 BCE

La Tene A-B1: Present 474 BCE 325 BCE

Umayyad Caliphate: Absent 661 CE 750 CE

Neo-Assyrian Empire: Present 911 BCE 612 BCE

Tocharians: Absent 129 BCE 29 CE

Kingdom of Hawaii - Kamehameha Period: Present 1778 CE 1803 CE

Late Roman Republic: Present 133 BCE 31 BCE

Cuzco - Early Intermediate II: Absent 500 CE 649 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 
1172 CE 1196 CE (Hungary Kingdom - Árpád Dynasty)
Béla III Emeric
1204 CE 1205 CE (Hungary Kingdom - Árpád Dynasty)
Ladislaus III Andrew II
Overturn Popular Uprising
1738 CE 1739 CE (Thanjavur Maratha Kingdom)
Katturaja / Shahuji II Pratapsingh Bhonsle
External Inteference
1760 CE 1763 CE (Kingdom of Cayor)
Isa Bige N'Gone Dyor Yassin Isa
1447 CE 1474 CE (Buganda I)
Tembo Kiggala
1390 CE 1425 CE (Kingdom of Kaffa)
Minjiloch Girra
1475 CE 1490 CE (Allada)
Adjakpa Yessu
1272 CE 1282 CE (Chagatai Khanate)
Buqa Temür (Puppet of Kaidu bin Kashin) Duwa (Puppet of Kaidu bin Kashin)

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 
744 CE 750 CE (Umayyad Caliphate)
Third Fitna and fall of Umayyad Caliphate
Epidemic Uprising Revolution Successful Revolution Civil War Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose
570 BCE 525 BCE (Egypt - Saite Period)
Fall of Twenty-sixth Dynasty
Uprising External Conquest Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose
639 CE 687 CE (Middle Merovingian)
Division of Merovingian kingdom (after Clovis I)
Civil War Fragmentation External Conquest Ruler Depose
150 CE 224 CE (Parthian Empire II)
Fall of the Parthian Empire
Epidemic Civil War External Conquest Ruler Assassination
225 CE (Satavahana Empire)
Fall of the Satavahana Empire
Fragmentation
1725 CE 1873 CE (Hmong - Late Qing)
Hmong uprisings against Qing state
Population Decline Uprising Civil War Lasted > a Century External Conquest
1740 CE 1780 CE (Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
Reforms of Marie Theresa
Public Goods Change
1640 CE 1656 CE (Ottoman Empire II)
Seventeenth Century Crisis
Population Decline Epidemic Ruler Assassination Ruler Depose

and 161 more ... coded for 153 Polities

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

July 1, 1867 Riot (political) in Tennessee (TN), Rogersville: 2 were killed.   The New York Times

Oct. 14, 2023 Terrorism (political) in Illinois (IL), Plainfield, Will: 1 was killed.   ACLED: The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data

Oct. 1, 1868 Riot (race, section) in Louisiana (LA), New Orleans: 12 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

July 1, 1888 Lynching (extralegal) in North Dakota (ND), Wahpeton: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Jan. 1, 1910 Riot (race) in Arkansas (AR), Little Rock: 2 were killed. -

May 1, 1921 Riot (labor) in West Virginia (WV), Merrimac: 20 were killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

Aug. 1, 2006 Terrorism in New York (NY), New York City: 1 was killed.   The New York Times

June 1, 1857 Lynching (extralegal) in Iowa (IA), Cedar: 1 was killed.   Paul A. Gilje, Riots In The United States

and 1941 more ...