Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Social Scale

Polity Population

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]
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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.

# Polity Year(s) Polity Population from Polity Population to Description   Edit
391
(Sakha - Early)
Full Year Range of Sakha - Early is assumed.
[1400, 1632]
None
None
None
392
(Sakha - Late)
Full Year Range of Sakha - Late is assumed.
[1632, 1900]
None
None
None
393
(Delhi Sultanate)
Full Year Range of Delhi Sultanate is assumed.
[1206, 1526]
None
None
None
394
(Shiwei)
Full Year Range of Shiwei is assumed.
[600, 1000]
None
None
None
395
(Shuar - Ecuadorian)
Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed.
[1831, 1931]
None
None
None
396
(Ghur Principality)
Full Year Range of Ghur Principality is assumed.
[1025, 1215]
None
None
People.
In 1200 CE: Pakistan + Afghanistan + Upper Ganges/Punjab.
397
(Susa III)
Full Year Range of Susa III is assumed.
[-3100, -2675]
None
None
People.
"excessively rapid urbanization of the mountain heartland" plateau in Fars followed by collapse and possible reversion to nomadism. Anshan, Tepe Sialk and Tepe Yahya also abandoned. [Louvre 1992, p. 5] "During the early third millennium B.C., the Susa III Period was marked by a population minumum in the Susiana Plain." [Johnson_Alden_Hole 1987, p. 157]
398
(Five Dynasties Period)
Full Year Range of Five Dynasties Period is assumed.
[906, 970]
None
None
None
399
(Susiana - Muhammad Jaffar)
Full Year Range of Susiana - Muhammad Jaffar is assumed.
[-7000, -6000]
None
None
People.
According to Mortensen early villages may have clustered together, "each group widely separated from the next." Examples in Susiana: Chogha Bonut, Boneh Favili, and Chogha Mish. Why? "it would have been difficult for the inhabitants of a village of one hundred or so persons to supply marriable pairs continually; thus marriage partners must have been supplied from outside. Among people today who live at low density, the figure of five hundred comes up as the minimum size necessary to maintain a viable social system. (Birdsell 1973:337-38; Wobst 1974)." [Johnson_Alden_Hole 1987, p. 83]
400
(Mongol Empire)
Full Year Range of Mongol Empire is assumed.
[1206, 1270]
None
None
None
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