Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Kinds of Written Documents

Fiction

Talking about kinds of written documents, fiction includes poetry.   (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
fiction The absence or presence of fiction for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Fiction Description   Edit
11
(Buganda)
1860 CE 1894 CE
unknown
None
12
(Nkore)
1860 CE 1901 CE
unknown
None
13
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)
1867 CE 1918 CE
present
None
14
(Soviet Union)
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
None
15
(Great Yuan)
Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed.
[1271, 1368]
present
None
16
(Yangshao)
Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed.
[-5000, -3000]
absent
None
17
(Spanish Empire I)
Full Year Range of Spanish Empire I is assumed.
[1516, 1715]
present
None
18
(Western Zhou)
Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed.
[-1122, -771]
present
None
19
(Western Han Empire)
Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed.
[-202, 9]
present
None
20
(Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period)
Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period is assumed.
[-1069, -747]
present
None
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