Home Region: North China (East Asia)
Five Dynasties Period
906 CE 970 CE
Displayed: 911 CE
Former Shu
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Later Liang Dynasty
Min
Qi Kingdom
Southern Chu
Southern Han
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Wuyue
Yan Kingdom
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Five Dynasties Period is an "intercycle quasipolity," referring to the period of disunity and instability in China between the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Song Dynasty. An alternative name is The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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Fortifications
Military use of Metals
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Luxury Goods
Religion Variables
Coding in Progress.
Human Sacrifice
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Consequences
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions
Coding in Progress.
NGA Settlements:
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Home NGA: None
General Variables
Identity and Location
Temporal Bounds
Political and Cultural Relations
Language
Religion
Social Complexity Variables
Social Scale
Hierarchical Complexity
Professions
Bureaucracy Characteristics
Law
Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Transport Infrastructure
Special-purpose Sites
Information
/ Writing System
Information
/ Kinds of Written Documents
Information
/ Money
Information
/ Postal System
Information
/ Measurement System
Warfare Variables (Military Technologies)
Fortifications
Military use of Metals
Projectiles
Handheld weapons
Animals used in warfare
Armor
Naval technology
Economy Variables (Luxury Goods)
Luxury Goods
Human Sacrifice Data
Human Sacrifice is the deliberate and ritualized killing of a person to please or placate supernatural entities (including gods, spirits, and ancestors) or gain other supernatural benefits.
Coding in Progress.
Crisis Cases
Coding in Progress.
Power Transitions