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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
sacred_text	The absence or presence of sacred text for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Sacred Text	Description	Edit
21	(Buganda)	1860 CE 1894 CE	present	None
22	(Nkore)	1860 CE 1901 CE	unknown	None
23	(Iban - Brooke Raj and Colonial)	1922 CE 1987 CE	present	None
24	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
25	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom II is assumed. [-217, -30]	present	None
26	(Archaic Crete)	Full Year Range of Archaic Crete is assumed. [-710, -500]	present	None
27	(Akan - Pre-Ashanti)	Full Year Range of Akan - Pre-Ashanti is assumed. [1501, 1701]	absent	None
28	(Ptolemaic Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom I is assumed. [-305, -217]	present	None
29	(Classical Crete)	Full Year Range of Classical Crete is assumed. [-500, -323]	present	None
30	(Shuar - Colonial)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Colonial is assumed. [1534, 1830]	absent	None

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