Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Forms of money

Article

Talking about forms of money, articles are items that have both a regular use and are used as money (example: axes, cattle, measures of grain, ingots of non-precious metals)   (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
article The absence or presence of article for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Article Description   Edit
1
(Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì)
1043 CE 1499 CE
A~P
None
2
(Mossi)
1100 CE 1750 CE
unknown
None
3
(Kamakura Shogunate)
1185 CE 1226 CE
present
None
4
(Kamakura Shogunate)
1226 CE 1333 CE
absent
None
5
(Ọ̀ràézè Ǹrì)
1500 CE 1911 CE
present
None
6
(Funj Sultanate)
1504 CE 1699 CE
present
None
7
(Funj Sultanate)
1700 CE 1820 CE
absent
None
8
(Buganda)
1700 CE 1879 CE
absent
None
9
(Mossi)
1751 CE 1897 CE
present
None
10
(Buganda)
1880 CE 1894 CE
present
None
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