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
31	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	217 BCE 151 BCE	4000000	4000000	None
32	(Parthian Empire I)	200 BCE	50000	100000	None
33	(Greco-Bactrian Kingdom)	200 BCE	1500000	2000000	None
34	(Western Han Empire)	200 BCE 9 CE	45000000	60000000	None
35	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	150 BCE 32 BCE	2500000	2500000	None
36	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	150 BCE 32 BCE	4000000	4000000	None
37	(Parthian Empire I)	100 BCE	5450000	5450000	None
38	(Satavahana Empire)	100 BCE 1 BCE	7000000	8000000	None
39	(Satavahana Empire)	0 CE 100 CE	7250000	8250000	None
40	(Western Han Empire)	1 CE	57600000	57600000	None

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