Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Social Scale

Population of the Largest Settlement

population of the largest settlement is the estimated population of the largest settlement of the polity. note that the largest settlement could be different from the capital (coded under general variables). if possible, indicate the dynamics (that is, how population changed during the temporal period of the polity). note that we are also building a city database - you should consult it as it may already have the needed data. (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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
population_of_the_largest_settlement_from	The lower range of population of the largest settlement for a polity.
population_of_the_largest_settlement_to	The upper range of population of the largest settlement for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Population of the Largest Settlement from	Population of the Largest Settlement to	Description	Edit
151	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	1450 CE	150000	150000	None
152	(Bengal Sultanate)	1450 CE	150000	150000	EMPTY_COMMENT
153	(Ottoman Empire I)	1453 CE	50000	60000	None
154	(Ottoman Empire I)	1478 CE	70000	70000	None
155	(Songhai Empire)	1492 CE	15000	15000	Inhabitants. Gao. Timbuktu. Djenne. Within the Mande-speaking heartland the basic building-block of government was the kafu, a community of anything from 1000 to 15,000 people living in or near a mud-walled town and ruled by a hereditary dynast called a fama." [Oliver_Atmore 2001, p. 62] Timbuktu probably didn't have more than 15,000 inhabitants by the end of Sonni Ali's reign. In 1580, at the end of Askia Daoud's reign, it had gone over the 70,000 inhabitants mark. "Elle ne dépassait probablement guère 15 000 habitants à la fin du règne de Sonni Ali. En 1580, à la fin du règne d'Askia Daoud, elle était passée à plus de 70 000 habitants." [Niane 1975, p. 57]
156	(Great Ming)	1500 CE	672000	672000	None
157	(Warring States Japan)	1500 CE	40000	40000	None
158	(Papal States - Renaissance Period)	1500 CE	55000	55000	None
159	(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I)	1500 CE	20000	20000	None
160	(Bengal Sultanate)	1500 CE	200000	200000	Inhabitants. Population of Gaur. [Chase-Dunn_Willard 0]

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