Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Kinds of Written Documents

Sacred Text

Talking about kinds of written documents, sacred texts originate from supernatural agents (deities), or are directly inspired by them.   (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
sacred_text The absence or presence of sacred text for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Sacred Text Description   Edit
11
(Kingdom of Kaffa)
1390 CE 1530 CE
unknown
None
12
(Kingdom of Kaffa)
1531 CE 1897 CE
present
None
13
(Sakha - Late)
1632 CE 1800 CE
absent
None
14
(Buganda)
1700 CE 1859 CE
absent
None
15
(Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late)
1714 CE 1831 CE
absent
None
16
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
None
17
(Nkore)
1750 CE 1859 CE
absent
None
18
(Sakha - Late)
1801 CE 1900 CE
present
None
19
(Haudenosaunee Confederacy - Late)
1832 CE 1848 CE
present
None
20
(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)
1841 CE 1921 CE
absent
None
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