Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Writing Systems

Written Record

Talking about writing systems, written records are more than short and fragmentary inscriptions, such as found on tombs or runic stones. there must be several sentences strung together, at the very minimum. for example, royal proclamations from mesopotamia and egypt qualify as written records (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
written_record	The absence or presence of written record for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Written Record	Description	Edit
221	(Buganda)	Full Year Range of Buganda is assumed. [1450, 1699]	absent	None
222	(Karagwe)	Full Year Range of Karagwe is assumed. [1500, 1916]	absent	None
223	(Late Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Late Roman Republic is assumed. [-133, -31]	present	None
224	(Kingdom of Nyinginya)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Nyinginya is assumed. [1650, 1897]	absent	None
225	(Nkore)	Full Year Range of Nkore is assumed. [1450, 1749]	absent	None
226	(Early Pandyas)	Full Year Range of Early Pandyas is assumed. [-300, 300]	present	None
227	(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I is assumed. [1614, 1775]	present	None
228	(Ndorwa)	Full Year Range of Ndorwa is assumed. [1700, 1800]	absent	None
229	(Burundi)	Full Year Range of Burundi is assumed. [1680, 1903]	absent	None
230	(Iban - Pre-Brooke)	Full Year Range of Iban - Pre-Brooke is assumed. [1650, 1841]	absent	None

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