Polity · 1800 BCE – 601 BCE
Babylonia
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- Peak recorded area
- 226,484 km²
- 1400 BCE
- Data series
- 25
- 1800 BCE–1200 BCE
Overview
Babylonia was an ancient Akkadian-speaking state and cultural area based on the city of Babylon in central-southern Mesopotamia. It emerged as an Akkadian-populated but Amorite-ruled state c. 1894 BC. During the reign of Hammurabi and afterwards, Babylonia was retrospectively called "the country of Akkad", a deliberate archaism in reference to the previous glory of the Akkadian Empire.
Lead section from Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article.
Territory
15 dated territorial extents on record from Cliopatria. Areas are measured off the recorded polygons; the line steps because each extent holds until the next one is recorded — nothing is interpolated.
The record
The best-attested series in each category; where several projects publish the same quantity, the one with the most observations is shown. Each row is the most recent value the record holds at or before 601 BCE, shown with the year that value belongs to. Some statistical series also publish forward projections — the year column is the honest guide. Nothing on this page is interpolated or estimated by us.
People
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Community Size | 8ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Economy
6 of 8 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Agricultural Sophistication7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.7718score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Monetary Complexity7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.5score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Agriculture Intensity | 6ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Agriculture | 6ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Fishing | 2ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Subsistence Gathering | 0ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
Military
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Military Sophistication7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.25score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Territory & resources
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Polity Territory7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 5.35score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Territory km²2 obs · 1894 BCE–1595 BCE | 225Ksq km1595 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Governance
| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Admin Levels2 obs · 1894 BCE–1595 BCE | 3levels1595 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Jurisdictional Hierarchy | 4ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Political Succession | 1ordinal2000 BCE · D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock) |
| Religious Hierarchy | 3.5levels1595 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Development
6 of 9 series| Series | Value · year · source |
|---|---|
| Government Complexity7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.5667score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Hierarchy Levels7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 3.5score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Information Complexity7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.8385score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Infrastructure7 obs · 1800 BCE–1200 BCE | 0.94score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Religious Levels4 obs · 1500 BCE–1200 BCE | 3.5score1200 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
| Settlement Hierarchy2 obs · 1894 BCE–1595 BCE | 4levels1595 BCE · Seshat Equinox 2020 |
Sources
Every figure above comes from one of these. Nothing on this page is estimated, interpolated or model-generated.
Seshat Global History Databank. Cliopatria: a historical basemap of polity borders (cliopatria.geojson).
D-PLACE Ethnographic Atlas (Murdock)Ethnographic Atlas (D-PLACE 2.3)
Kirby, K.R. et al. (2016). D-PLACE: A Global Database of Cultural, Linguistic and Environmental Diversity. PLoS ONE 11(7).
CC BY 4.0
Seshat Equinox 2020Equinox 2020
Turchin, P. et al. Seshat Global History Databank, Equinox 2020 release.
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Wikipedia contributors. Article lead sections, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
CC BY-SA 4.0
Babylonia is one of the polities with a sourced record deep enough to publish.