Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Social Scale

Polity Population

Talking about social scale, 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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

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.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Polity Population from	Polity Population to	Description	Edit
1	(Susa I)	4300 BCE 4000 BCE	8000	12000	None
2	(Uruk)	4000 BCE 3501 BCE	20000	38540	None
3	(Susa I)	3999 BCE 3800 BCE	800	1200	None
4	(Naqada I)	3800 BCE 3651 BCE	None	None	None
5	(Susa II)	3800 BCE 3501 BCE	10000	19000	None
6	(Naqada I)	3650 BCE 3551 BCE	13000	13000	None
7	(Naqada II)	3500 BCE	13000	13000	None
8	(Susa II)	3500 BCE 3401 BCE	10000	25000	None
9	(Uruk)	3500 BCE 3000 BCE	21300	41000	None
10	(Naqada II)	3400 BCE 3300 BCE	50000	50000	None

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