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
451	(Beaker Culture)	Full Year Range of Beaker Culture is assumed. [-3200, -2000]	800	1200	None
452	(Early Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Early Merovingian is assumed. [481, 543]	1250000	1750000	None
453	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	None	None	None
454	(Seleucids)	Full Year Range of Seleucids is assumed. [-312, -63]	16000000	16000000	None
455	(Magadha - Maurya Empire)	Full Year Range of Magadha - Maurya Empire is assumed. [-324, -187]	18000000	18000000	None
456	(Buyid Confederation)	Full Year Range of Buyid Confederation is assumed. [932, 1062]	4500000	5500000	None
457	(Seleucids)	Full Year Range of Seleucids is assumed. [-312, -63]	30000000	30000000	None
458	(Late Angkor)	Full Year Range of Late Angkor is assumed. [1220, 1432]	1500000	1500000	None
459	(Bamana kingdom)	Full Year Range of Bamana kingdom is assumed. [1712, 1861]	3000000	4000000	None
460	(Jenne-jeno I)	Full Year Range of Jenne-jeno I is assumed. [-250, 49]	200	300	None

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