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
11	(Susa II)	3400 BCE 3201 BCE	21000	25000	None
12	(Susa II)	3200 BCE 3101 BCE	6900	6900	None
13	(Susa II)	3100 BCE	6900	6900	None
14	(Canaan)	2000 BCE 1551 BCE	5000	40000	None
15	(Canaan)	1550 BCE 1175 BCE	5000	60000	None
16	(Early Xiongnu)	1400 BCE 500 BCE	25000	50000	None
17	(Deccan - Iron Age)	1200 BCE 1000 BCE	500	1000	None
18	(Western Zhou)	1045 BCE 957 BCE	9000000	12000000	None
19	(Yisrael)	1030 BCE 1000 BCE	40000	50000	None
20	(Deccan - Iron Age)	999 BCE 600 BCE	5000	15000	None

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