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
41	(Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period is assumed. [-1720, -1567]	present	None
42	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	present	None
43	(Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Late Qing is assumed. [1796, 1912]	present	None
44	(Northern Wei)	Full Year Range of Northern Wei is assumed. [386, 534]	present	None
45	(Jin)	Full Year Range of Jin is assumed. [-780, -404]	present	None
46	(Egypt - Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty II is assumed. [-2900, -2687]	present	None
47	(Great Ming)	Full Year Range of Great Ming is assumed. [1368, 1644]	present	None
48	(Napoleonic France)	Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed. [1816, 1870]	present	None
49	(Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period is assumed. [-1293, -1070]	present	None
50	(Egypt - Period of the Regions)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Period of the Regions is assumed. [-2150, -2016]	present	None

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