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=Phase I Variables (polity-based)=

==General variables==

'''♠ RA ♣ Edward Turner; Agathe Dupeyron ♥'''

''' ♠ Original name  ♣ Ancient Khwarazm ♥ '''

''' ♠ Alternative names  ♣ Great Khwarazm Empire; Amirabad culture; Suyargan culture ♥ '''

"German and Russian scholars have speculated on the existence before 500 BC of a 'Great Khwarazm Empire' extending from the Black Sea eastward to the Tian Shan and south to Herat in Afghanistan."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref>

<span style="color:purple">JR: There are a few references to Sogdiana throughout this polity sheet, but it's worth noting that Khwarazm (the region around the delta of the Amu Darya or Oxus river as it enters what was then the Aral Sea) is a separate region from Sogdiana proper, centered on the Zerafshan Valley to the south-east. The idea of a pre-500 BCE 'Great Khwarazm Empire' with influence over Sogdiana and other regions, mentioned briefly in Frederick Starr's book, doesn't appear to be common among scholars of Iron Age Central Asia.</span>

Francfort writes that the Middle Iron Age (c. 1000-560 BCE) in Central Asia is one of the most poorly understood when compared to other prehistoric periods. He sees no reason to qualify older historians descriptions of it as a dark age ('âge sombre').<ref>(Francfort 2003, 32) Henri-Paul Francfort. 2003. 'La civilisation de l'Asie Centrale à l'âge du Fer', in ''De l'Indus à l'Oxus: Archéologie de l'Asie Centrale'', edited by Osmund Bopearachchi, Christian Landes and Christine Sachs, 29-59. Lattes: Imago.</ref> However, what we can see is the architecture that emerged during the period in Khwarazm and elsewhere: 'Dans le nord de l'Afghanistan et en Ouzbékistan surgissent de vastes établissements que leurs occupants munissent de puissants remparts: Merv, Samarkand, Kyzyl Tepé, Bandykhan Tepé, Altyn Dilyar, et d'autres sont de véritables villes fortifiées, souvent de forme circulaire. Il s'agit d'une seconde urbanisation de grande ampleur que touche également la Chorasmie (Kalaly-Gyr)' [In the north of Afghanistan and in Uzbekistan, vast settlements emerged, which their occupants furnished with powerful ramparts: Merv, Samarkand, Kyzyl Tepe, Bandykhan Tepe, Altyn Dilyar, and others are veritable fortified towns, often with circular plans. This was a second, large-scale urbanization that equally affected Khwarazm (Kalaly-Gyr)].<ref>(Francfort 2003, 32) Henri-Paul Francfort. 2003. 'La civilisation de l'Asie Centrale à l'âge du Fer', in ''De l'Indus à l'Oxus: Archéologie de l'Asie Centrale'', edited by Osmund Bopearachchi, Christian Landes and Christine Sachs, 29-59. Lattes: Imago.</ref>

"On arrival in the fertile lands of Khorezm the steppe tribes entered into interaction with the farming population - representative of the indigenous culture of Suyargan."<ref>(Kuzima 2007, 238) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref>

"According to  S. P. Tolstov and M. A. Itina (1960), the Tazabagyab Culture coexisted in Khorezm with the Suyargan Culture. This culture appeared in the first half of the second millennium B.C., developing out of the local Kelteminar Culture (Gulyamov et al. 1966), which was influenced by southern farmers. In the latter half of the second millennium B.C., the Suyargan and Tazabagyab populations were in the process of active assimilation."<ref>(Kuzima and Mair 2008, 78) Kuzima, E. E. Mair, Victor H. 2008. The Prehistory of the Silk Road. University of Pennsylvania Press.</ref>

Tazabagyab culture 15th-11th centuries BCE: "The legitimacy of distinguishing the sites of Khorezm as a particular Tazabagyab culture is borne out by the statistically stable combination of characteristics marking it off from the Timber-grave and Andronovo cultures."<ref>(Kuzima 2007, 239) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref>

Amirabad culture continues on from Tazabagyab: in the first third of the 1st millennium BCE, 'in the lower reaches of the Amu Darya [i.e. Khwarazm], we have the Amirabad culture, which continues to a great extent the traditions of Tazabagyaba. The settlements consisted of large-frame houses of the semi-mud hut type; hand-molded dishes are occasionally decorated with notches. The wide distribution of domesticated horses is significant.'<ref>(Masson 1986) V. M. Masson. 1986. 'Archeology v: Pre-Islamic Central Asia'. ''Encyclopaedia Iranica'', II/3, pp. 308-17; an updated version is available online at http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/archeology-v (accessed on 21 September 2016).</ref>

Discussing finds from Koktepe in Sogdiana (to the east of Khwarazm), Rapin and Isamiddinov refer to 'la civilisation qui, du Turkménistan au Xinjiang, s'étend dans la période de transition entre l'âge du bronze et l'âge du fer, du dernier tiers du IIe millénaire au début du Ier millénaire av. n. è.' [the civilization that extended from Turkmenistan to Xinjiang in the period of transition between the Bronze and Iron age, from the last third of the 2nd millennium to the beginning of the 1st millennium BCE].<ref>(Rapin and Isamiddinov 2013, 125) Claude Rapin and Muhammadjon Isamiddinov. 2013. 'Entre sédentaires et nomades: les recherches de la Mission archéologique franco-ouzbèke (MAFOuz) de Sogdiane sur le site de Koktepe'. ''Cahiers d'Asie centrale'' 21/22: 113-133. Available online at http://asiecentrale.revues.org/1736.</ref> Did this proposed 'civilization', defined by similarities in material culture across a broad section of Central Asia, include Khwarazm?

''' ♠ Peak Date  ♣ ♥ '''


====Temporal bounds====


''' ♠ Duration  ♣ 1000-521 BCE ♥ '''  1000-521 BCE is a temporary periodization. This needs expert input, and very likely the periodization should be split into more than one period.

''This is the Chorasmian periodization used by the Karakalpak-Australian Archaeological Expedition, which began in 1995:<ref>(Helms and Yagodin 1997, 43) Svend Helms and Vadim N. Yagodin. 1997. ‘Excavations at Kazakl'i-Yatkan in the Tash-Ki'rman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia: A Preliminary Report’. ‘’Iran’’ 35: 43-65.</ref>''

BRONZE AGE (= ANDRONOVO)
: Suyargan: Ia (early stage) 1st half 2nd millennium BC
: Suyargan: Ib (late stage) 11th-9th centuries BC
: Tazabag'yab: II 15th-11th centuries BC
EARLY IRON AGE (= LATE ANDRONOVO)
: Amirabad: III 9th-8th centuries BC
ARCHAIC
: Kiuzeli-g'ir: I 7th/6th centuries BC
: Dingil'dzhe: II 6th/5th centuries BC
: Kala'i-g'ir: III 5th century BC
: Khazarasp: IV 5th/4th century BC
ANTIQUE
: Kangiui: I (early stage) 4th-3rd centuries BC
: Kangiui: II (late stage) 2nd century BC - 1st century AD
: Kushan: I (early) 1st-2nd centuries AD
: Kushan: II (late) 3rd-4th centuries AD
: Hephthalite: 4th-6th centuries AD
: Turk: 4th century AD+
AFRIGHID
4th(?)-9th centuries AD<ref>(Helms et al. 2001, 119-20) S. W. Helms, V. N. Yagodin, A. V. G. Betts, G. Khozhaniyazov and F. Kidd. 2001. 'Five Seasons of Excavations in the Tash-k'irman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia, 1996-2000: An Interim Report'. ''Iran'' 39: 119-44.</ref>''

"Their location at the crossroads of continental trade assured the  prosperity of Khwarazm’s cities - provided they could channel water from the fast-flowing Amu Darya onto their agricultural land. As early as the sixth century BC, the people of Khwarazm had become masters of  hydraulic engineering, diverting whole rivers into freshly dug channels to serve major centers tens of miles away, and dividing them again into  canals to provide water to more remote towns. Nowhere on earth were  irrigation technologies more highly developed than here."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref>

V. Altman, “Ancient Khorezmian Civilization in the Light of the Latest Archaeological Discoveries (1937-1945),” Journal of the American Oriental Society 67, 2 (April-June 1947): 81.

Tolstov, Drevnii  Khoresm (Moscow, 1948) Posledam drevnekhorezmiiskoi tsivilizatsii (Moscow, 1948), pt. 2

Masson, Strana tysiachi gorodov  (Moscow, 1966), 123-44; Barthold, Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion, 149

N. N. Negmatov, “States in North-Western Central Asia,”  in History of Civilizations of Central Asia, 2:441, 446, 455.

'''♠ Degree of centralization ♣ quasi-polity ♥ ''' 'Discussing the problems of pre-Achaemenian Khorezm, S. P. Tolstov considered that this ancient realm was a tribal confederation of chiefdoms that gradually evolved into a state'.<ref>(Askarov 1992, 447) A. Askarov. 1992. 'The Beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania', in ''History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol 1: The Dawn of Civilization: Earliest Times to 700 B.C.'', edited by A. H. Dani and V. M. Masson, 441-58. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.</ref> Abazov says: 'Khwarezm, likely one of the oldest political entities in the territories of Central Asia, was situated between Sogdiana and the Aral Sea. It was probably a loose confederation of settled and seminomadic groups'.<ref>(Abazov 2008, xxxii) Rafis Abazov. 2008. ''The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of Central Asia''. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.</ref>

''' ♠ Supra-polity relations ♣ ♥ '''

====Supra-cultural relations====

:''' ♠ preceding (quasi)polity  ♣ Koktepe I ♥ ''' "Pre-Achaemenid period.  Before the arrival of Iranian peoples in Central Asia, Sogdiana had already experienced at least two urban  phases.  The first was at Sarazm (4th-3rd m. BCE), a town of some 100 hectares has been excavated, where both irrigation agriculture and metallurgy were practiced (Isakov).  It has been possible to demonstrate the magnitude of links with the civilization of the Oxus as well as with more distant regions, such as Baluchistan.  The second phase began in at least the 15th century BCE at Kök Tepe, on the Bulungur canal north of the Zarafšān River, where the earliest archeological material appears to go back to the Bronze Age, and which persisted throughout the Iron Age, until the arrival from the north of the Iranian-speaking populations that were to become the Sogdian group.  It declined with the rise of Samarkand (Rapin, 2007).  Pre-Achaemenid Sogdiana is recalled in the Younger Avesta (chap. 1 of the Vidēvdād, q.v.) under the name Gava and said to be inhabited by the Sogdians. <ref>(De la Vaissière, Encyclopedia Iranica online, http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/sogdiana-iii-history-and-archeology)</ref>
:''' ♠ relationship to preceding (quasi)polity ♣ continuity; population migration ♥ '''
:''' ♠ succeeding (quasi)polity  ♣ Achaemenid Empire ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Supracultural entity ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ scale of supra-cultural interaction ♣ ♥ '''km squared.

''' ♠ Capital  ♣ Afrasiab-Samarkand; Kök Tepe ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids found in Sogdiana an urban civilization. Along two divergent canals fed by the Zarafshan, the proto-Dargom and the Bulungur, two gigantic sites, Afrasiab-Samarkand and Kök Tepe - each covering more than two hundred hectares - were occupied from the 8th or 7th century before our era.2 The valley of the Zarafshan had already known an earlier urban phase at the site of Sarazm, a small distance upstream from Samarkand, but this phase had ended a millenium before.3 Kök Tepe declined rapidly, but Samarkand became for two millenia the greatest city of Sogdiana, and, with Merv and Bactra, one of the very great cities of western Central Asia." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>


''' ♠ Language  ♣ Sogdian ♥ ''' "The Achaemenid sources of the 6th century BCE are the first to mention Sogdiana and its inhabitants, the Sogdians. The individu- alization of this people in the texts demonstrates the existence of an ethnic identity before a linguistic reality, for if in this work we define the Sogdians as those who spoke Sogdian as their native language, we must note that the separation of Sogdian from the other Iranian languages probably took place only very progressively in the course of the Achaemenid period." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 16)</ref>
====General Description====


"The most interesting Early Iron Age culture of ancient Khorezm was that of Amirabad in the tenth to eighth centuries b.c.2 Dozens more settlements were found in the lower reaches of the former channels of Akcha Darya, the ancient delta of the Amu Darya. The most interesting was Yakka-Parsan II, alongside which were found ancient fields, and the remnants of an Amirabad-period irrigation system (Fig. 1). The old channel passed near by, its banks being reinforced with dykes.
Two rows of semi-dugout houses - some twenty in all - were found in the Yakka-Parsan II settlement. Large numbers of storage pits were found around the houses, and the entire site is rich in animal bones, pottery, grain-querns and so on. The houses stood between two canals that merged to the south, all the doors giving on to the canals. Rectangular in ground-plan, the houses were 90 to 110 m2 in area and had two or three rooms. The interiors contained many storage pits and post-holes, each with a long fireplace in the centre. The major finds were pottery, hand-made with a darkish brown, red or greyish slip, the shoulders of the bowls being decorated with small crosses, lattice-work or 'fir-trees'. Accord ing to S. P. Tolstov, the Amirabad culture was genetically akin to the Kaundy complex and dates from the ninth to eighth centuries b.c. It should be observed that the pottery shows more obvious traces of Karasuk influence, the commonest shapes being similar to the ceramics ofthe latter; this entitles us to date its origins to a somewhat earlier period - the tenth century b.c. Other finds include bronze artefacts - a needle with an eye, a sickle with a shaped handle, a bronze arrow¬ head with a shaft - and stone moulds for casting shaft-hole arrowheads and sickles. A bronze sickle, large numbers of grain-querns and the advanced irrigation network and fields together show that agriculture was widely practised, while the bone finds further indicate that the population was engaged in stock- breeding.3" <ref>(Askarov 1992, 441-443)</ref>

"The Achaemenids found in Sogdiana an urban civilization. Along two divergent canals fed by the Zarafshan, the proto-Dargom and the Bulungur, two gigantic sites, Afrasiab-Samarkand and Kök Tepe - each covering more than two hundred hectares - were occupied from the 8th or 7th century before our era.2 The valley of the Zarafshan had already known an earlier urban phase at the site of Sarazm, a small distance upstream from Samarkand, but this phase had ended a millenium before.3 Kök Tepe declined rapidly, but Samarkand became for two millenia the greatest city of Sogdiana, and, with Merv and Bactra, one of the very great cities of western Central Asia. The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>

"The 6th and 5th cenuries BC are represented by only a few monuments, and the nature of Persian political and economic control over Chorasmia is,, therefore, still in question. Similarly unresolved is the question of the introduction of large-scale irrigation to the area - whether this was an indigenous development, gradually evolving as the cattle-breeding nomadic tribes became sedentised, or whether it was a new technology introduced by an hydraulic imperial state, the Achaemenid Empire under Darius I, in about 525 BC. Up until last year only three large-scale settlements of this period were properly documented - i.e. Kiuzeli-g'ir, Kakal'i-g'ir, and Chirik-rabat." <ref>(Helms 1998, 87-88)</ref>

Reference to check: A. I. Isakov, “Sarazm: An Agricultural Center of Ancient Sogdiana,” Bulletin of the Asia Institute 8, 1996, pp. 1-13.

'The process of urbanization began earlier and on a greater scale in Chorasmia and on the left bank of the middle Syr Darya, localities which were more advanced in economic and cultural terms. They were geographically closer to the ancient urban centres of south-western and southern Central Asia and were open to their influence through Margiana and Sogdiana. They were later incorporated as provinces of the Achaemenid Empire and came into its socio-economic orbit for a time. In the southern Aral region, the sedentary farmers and pastoralists of the Chorasmian oasis represent the Late Bronze Age Amirabad cultural pattern seen in the Dzhanbas and Yakka-Parsan settlements. At that time they had master craftsmen (the 'house of the caster') with settled houses and social gradations. [...] The oldest Chorasmian city, and the key monument of this period, was Kyuzeli-gir, dating from the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. It lay on the left bank of the Amu Darya in the Sarîkamîsh region of the delta. Standing on a natural elevation, roughly triangular in ground-plan, it occupied an area of 25 ha. The city was surrounded by a powerful defensive wall with oval bastions. Its residential district was densely packed with buildings of rectangular unbaked brick and pakhsa. It had an advanced pottery industry, based on the wheel, and art objects of a type common in Saka burial complexes of the period have been found. Another early city of the same date, Kalalî-gîr, was surrounded by triple walls with bastions and had four gates with entrance barbicans and a hill-top palace, but it was never completed.' <ref>(Negmatov 1994, 446)</ref>

Throughout the periods Helms and Yagodin focus on in their 1997 article (from the end of the Bronze Age to the incursions of the Hephthalites, Turks and early 'Afrighids' in the mid-1st millennium CE), 'the region saw the infiltration of many nomadic groups (initially cattle-breeders, later also sheep-goat and camel) some of which formed settled communities, even states and empires. These are the Scythians (a generic term), Massagetae, Sacae, Sav[u]romats, Yueh-chih (later "Kushans"), Sarmatians, and others of the Greek, Persian, and Chinese sources. Identifying evidence of their presence has never been easy: the bulk of data has had to come from burials (kurgans) whose contents have been loosely arranged in a relative chronology (see Itina 1979). Recent work by Yagodin has provided more precise information regarding tribal groupings in and about ancient Chorasmia, including the Ustiurt Plateau, as early as the "Archaic" period (Yagodin 1990) and, more generally, the major trade routes (i.e., the Silk Road) through northern Central Asia (Yagodin 1994)'.<ref>(Helms and Yagodin 1997, 44) Svend Helms and Vadim N. Yagodin. 1997. 'Excavations at Kazakl'i-Yatkan in the Tash-Ki'rman Oasis of Ancient Chorasmia: A Preliminary Report'. ''Iran'' 35: 45-47.</ref>

==Social Complexity variables==

'''♠ RA ♣ ♥'''

===Social Scale===

''' ♠ Polity territory ♣ ♥ ''' in squared kilometers

"German and Russian scholars have speculated on the existence before 500 BC of a 'Great Khwarazm Empire' extending from the Black Sea eastward to the Tian Shan and south to Herat in Afghanistan."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref> "Briefly discussed in E. V. Rtveladaze, ed., Istoriia gosudarstevnnosti  Uzbekistana, 3 vols. (Tashkent, 2009), 1:210."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref>

''' ♠ Polity Population ♣ [50,000-100,000] ♥ ''' People.

1300 BCE "100,000 scattered through the oases and in the areas where neolithic agriculture was possible."<ref>(McEvedy and Jones 1978) McEvedy, Colin. Jones, Richard. 1978. Atlas of World Population History. Penguin Books Ltd.</ref>

''' ♠ Population of the largest settlement ♣ [10,000-40,000] ♥ ''' Inhabitants. Assuming 50-200 inhabitants per ha. 
"The Achaemenids found in Sogdiana an urban civilization. Along two divergent canals fed by the Zarafshan, the proto-Dargom and the Bulungur, two gigantic sites, Afrasiab-Samarkand and Kök Tepe - each covering more than two hundred hectares - were occupied from the 8th or 7th century before our era.2 The valley of the Zarafshan had already known an earlier urban phase at the site of Sarazm, a small distance upstream from Samarkand, but this phase had ended a millenium before.3 Kök Tepe declined rapidly, but Samarkand became for two millenia the greatest city of Sogdiana, and, with Merv and Bactra, one of the very great cities of western Central Asia." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>

"Khwarazm for a thousand years before  Ibn Sina’s arrival teemed with large, prosperous cities and the walled  castles of patricians (dihkans)."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref>

===Hierarchical Complexity===

''' ♠ Settlement hierarchy ♣ [3-5] ♥ ''' levels. Inferred from the scale of the largest settlements (200 ha)

''' ♠ Administrative levels ♣ ♥ ''' levels.

"Khwarazm for a thousand years before  Ibn Sina’s arrival teemed with large, prosperous cities and the walled castles of patricians (dihkans)."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref>

''' ♠ Religious levels ♣ ♥ ''' levels.

"The cults of Khorezm are also evidenced by figurines of the horse and camel."<ref>(Kuzima 2007, 238) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref>

''' ♠ Military levels ♣ ♥ ''' levels.

===Professions===

''' ♠ Professional military officers ♣ ♥ ''' Full-time specialists

''' ♠ Professional soldiers ♣ ♥ ''' Full-time specialists

''' ♠ Professional priesthood ♣ ♥ ''' Full-time specialists

===Bureaucracy characteristics===

''' ♠ Full-time bureaucrats ♣ ♥ ''' Full-time specialists

''' ♠ Examination system ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''

''' ♠ Merit promotion ♣ ♥ '''

''' ♠ Specialized government buildings ♣ ♥ '''

===Law===

''' ♠ Formal legal code ♣ ♥ '''

''' ♠ Judges ♣ ♥ '''

''' ♠ Courts ♣ ♥ '''

''' ♠ Professional Lawyers ♣ suspected unknown ♥'''

===Specialized Buildings: polity owned===

:''' ♠ irrigation systems ♣ present ♥ ''' "As early as the sixth century BC, the people of Khwarazm had become masters of hydraulic engineering, diverting whole rivers into freshly dug channels to serve major centers tens of miles away, and dividing them again into canals to provide water to more remote towns. Nowhere on earth were irrigation technologies more highly developed than here."<ref>(Starr 2013) Starr, S. Frederick. 2013. Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane. Princeton University Press. Princeton.</ref> "Archaeologists, however, consider that in Chorasmia proper substantial progress in the development of irrigated agriculture may be observed only in the sixth century b.c., while in the eighth and seventh centuries b.c. the country had neither a numerous population nor an advanced irrigation system. <ref>(Dandamayev 1994, 43)</ref> "As distinct from other steppe cultures, Khorezm's economy was based on irrigation farming. The 150-200m long canals would irrigate small rectangular fields (Adrianov 1969)."<ref>(Kuzima 2007, 238) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref>
:''' ♠ drinking water supply systems ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ markets ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ food storage sites ♣ ♥ '''

====Transport infrastructure====

:''' ♠ Roads ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' "The use of wheeled transport is evidenced by clay models of wheels."<ref>(Kuzima 2007, 238) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref> -- ''Wheeled transport very likely would have needed some maintained tracks.''
:''' ♠ Bridges ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Canals ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Ports ♣ ♥ '''

====Special purpose sites====

:''' ♠ Mines or quarries ♣ inferred present  ♥ ''' “Archaeological studies and written sources indicate that the population was engaged in various occupations - in mining and smelting copper and iron, mining precious stones, manufacturing tools, arms and pottery, and in weaving and building activities. Internal trade and commerce flourished among the population of the oases and steppes in Chorasmia, Ferghana and Usrushana. […]Gold, copper, silver and iron were mined in the Kyzyl Kum, the Nuratau mountains, the Naukat deposit in the Ferghana valley, the Khojand hills, the Kurama (Kara-Mazar mountains) and Chatkal ranges, the Ahangaran valley, the Almalyk district and the Karatau mountains. Many places where metals were smelted have been identified, complete with fragments of slag, in settlements in the Kayrak Rums. These probably drew their raw materials from deposits at Naukat, Uchkatli Miskon, Dzhidargamirsay, Chakadambulak, Aktashkan, Kochbulak and Koni Mansur in the Kara-Mazar." <ref>(Negmatov 1994, 445)</ref> "The source of ore was the Bukan-tau and Tamdy-tau mountains, where ancient workings and copper-smelteries were discovered (Itina 1977: 136, 137)." <ref>(Kuzima 2007, 238) Kuzmina, Elena Efimovna. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL.</ref>
===Information===

====Writing System====

:''' ♠ Mnemonic devices ♣ ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Nonwritten records ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Written records ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Script ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Non-phonetic writing ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Phonetic alphabetic writing ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>

====Kinds of Written Documents====

:''' ♠ Lists, tables, and classifications ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Calendar ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Sacred Texts ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Religious literature ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Practical literature ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ History ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Philosophy ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Scientific literature ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>
:''' ♠ Fiction ♣ absent ♥ ''' "The Achaemenids brought writing to Sogdiana, and the written language long remained the Aramaic of the Achaemenid Empire." <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 17)</ref>


====Money====

:''' ♠ Articles ♣  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Tokens ♣  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Precious metals ♣  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Foreign coins ♣ inferred absent ♥ ''' "Finally, the Greeks gave to Sogdiana its first real coinage, because Achaemenid darics are nearly absent from Sogdiana, as they are from all of eastern Iran. " <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 18)</ref>
:''' ♠ Indigenous coins ♣ absent ♥ ''' "Finally, the Greeks gave to Sogdiana its first real coinage, because Achaemenid darics are nearly absent from Sogdiana, as they are from all of eastern Iran. " <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 18)</ref>
:''' ♠ Paper currency ♣ absent ♥ ''' "Finally, the Greeks gave to Sogdiana its first real coinage, because Achaemenid darics are nearly absent from Sogdiana, as they are from all of eastern Iran. " <ref>(De la Vaissière 2005, 18)</ref>
====Postal System====

:''' ♠ Couriers ♣  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Postal stations ♣  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ General postal service ♣  ♥ '''
==Warfare variables==

'''♠ RA ♣ Edward A L Turner ♥'''

===Military Technologies===

====Military use of Metals====

:''' ♠ Copper ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Copper is needed to make bronze which is present.
:''' ♠ Bronze ♣ present ♥ ''' "Other finds include bronze artefacts - a needle with an eye, a sickle with a shaped handle, a bronze arrow¬ head with a shaft - and stone moulds for casting shaft-hole arrowheads and sickles." <ref>(Askarov 1992, 441-443) A Askarov. The beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhailovich Masson. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C. UNESCO. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. Delhi.</ref>
:''' ♠ Iron ♣ present ♥ ''' "At the very start of the Iron Age, what are known as bronze-and-iron tools and weapons, those with an iron blade and a bronze handle, became widespread in Middle Asia (Soviet Central Asia). Iron soon made its way into all fields of warfare and daily life." <ref>(Askarov 1992, 441) A Askarov. The beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhailovich Masson. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C. UNESCO. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. Delhi.</ref>
:''' ♠ Steel ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''

====Projectiles====

:''' ♠ Javelins ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' "In the 12th century BC chariot warfare tactics lost their importance in Andronovo society; mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers."<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> ''Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).''
:''' ♠ Atlatl ♣ absent ♥ ''' New World weapon.
:''' ♠ Slings ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Self bow ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' "Other finds include bronze artefacts - a needle with an eye, a sickle with a shaped handle, a bronze arrow-head with a shaft - and stone moulds for casting shaft-hole arrowheads and sickles." <ref>(Askarov 1992, 441-443) A Askarov. The beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhailovich Masson. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C. UNESCO. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. Delhi.</ref> "Composite bows are known from both Mesopotamia and the Great Steppe from the III millennium BCE. The Scythian bow was different from the Mesopotamian one primarily in its overall dimensions - it was smaller so that it could be used from the horseback. At the same time, self bows were also in use, but because of their large size they were not suitable for use by horse riders."<ref>Sergey A Nefedov, RAN Institute of History and Archaeology, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Personal Communication to Peter Turchin. January 2018.</ref>
:''' ♠ Composite bow ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' "Composite bows are known from both Mesopotamia and the Great Steppe from the III millennium BCE. The Scythian bow was different from the Mesopotamian one primarily in its overall dimensions - it was smaller so that it could be used from the horseback. At the same time, self bows were also in use, but because of their large size they were not suitable for use by horse riders."<ref>Sergey A Nefedov, RAN Institute of History and Archaeology, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Personal Communication to Peter Turchin. January 2018.</ref>
:''' ♠ Crossbow ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Tension siege engines ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Sling siege engines ♣ absent ♥ ''' First use of the counter-weight trebuchet 1165 CE at Byzantine siege of Zevgminon.<ref>(Turnball 2002) Turnball, S. 2002. Siege Weapons of the Far East (1): AD 612-1300. Osprey Publishing.</ref>
:''' ♠ Gunpowder siege artillery ♣ absent ♥ ''' absent before the gunpowder era
:''' ♠ Handheld firearms ♣ absent ♥ ''' absent before the gunpowder era

====Handheld weapons====

: ''' ♠ War clubs ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Maces may have earlier been a weapon of those Andronovo who used the chariot but at this time chariot warfare may have been replaced by mounted horsemen. "In the 12th century BC chariot warfare tactics lost their importance in Andronovo society; mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers."<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
: ''' ♠ Battle axes ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Andronovo had the socketed ax.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> The axe may have earlier been a weapon of those Andronovo who used the chariot but at this time chariot warfare may have been replaced by mounted horsemen. "In the 12th century BC chariot warfare tactics lost their importance in Andronovo society; mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers."<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th). The battle axe was later a typical weapon of steppe zone nomadic culture after 700 BCE: "Lively contacts and easy communications promoted the rise and spread of a fairly uniform nomadic culture in the steppe zone. The same types of horse-harness (bridle, bit, cheek-piece, saddle, trappings), arms (bow, bow-case, arrow and quiver, sword, battle-axe, mail) and garments (trousers, caftan, waist-girdle, boots, pointed cap) were used in the steppe zone from Central Europe to Korea."<ref>(Harmatta 1994, 476-477) Harmatta, J. Conclusion. in Harmatta, Janos. Puri, B. N. Etemadi, G. F. eds. 1994. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Volume II. The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizatins 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. UNESCO Publishing.</ref>
: ''' ♠ Daggers ♣ present ♥ ''' "At the start of the Early Iron Age tools and weapons made partly of bronze and partly of iron - daggers with an iron blade and a bronze handle - were quite widespread. When, however, iron came into full use, it provided great opportunities for socio-economic progress."<ref>(Negmatov 1994, 442)</ref> Stone, bronze and iron knives found at Dalverzin-tepe (Chust culture) in Bactria around this time.<ref>(Askarov 1992, 448-449) A Askarov. The beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhailovich Masson. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C. UNESCO. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. Delhi.</ref>
: ''' ♠ Swords ♣ present ♥ ''' Found at a fortress, "one relief shoes a rider, seated on a richly adorned horse, with a lance in his right hand and a short sword at his left side".<ref>(Vainberg 1994: 77) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/RKRBCMG7.</ref> The sword may have earlier been a weapon of those Andronovo who used the chariot but at this time chariot warfare may have been replaced by mounted horsemen. However, the sword can also be used as an infantry weapon so it is unlikely the technology was abandoned. "In the 12th century BC chariot warfare tactics lost their importance in Andronovo society; mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers."<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th). The sword was later a typical weapon of steppe zone nomadic culture after 700 BCE: "Lively contacts and easy communications promoted the rise and spread of a fairly uniform nomadic culture in the steppe zone. The same types of horse-harness (bridle, bit, cheek-piece, saddle, trappings), arms (bow, bow-case, arrow and quiver, sword, battle-axe, mail) and garments (trousers, caftan, waist-girdle, boots, pointed cap) were used in the steppe zone from Central Europe to Korea."<ref>(Harmatta 1994, 476-477) Harmatta, J. Conclusion. in Harmatta, Janos. Puri, B. N. Etemadi, G. F. eds. 1994. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Volume II. The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizatins 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. UNESCO Publishing.</ref>
: ''' ♠ Spears ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Andronovo had the spearhead.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Not known if it that was only a thrown spear (e.g. from chariot) or also handheld. No data for this period.
: ''' ♠ Polearms ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
====Animals used in warfare====

:''' ♠ Dogs ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Donkeys ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Horses ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Bronze horse harnesses found at Dalverzin-tepe (Chust culture) in Bactria and Ferghana valley around this time.<ref>(Askarov 1992, 448-449) A Askarov. The beginning of the Iron Age in Transoxania. Ahmad Hasan Dani, Vadim Mikhailovich Masson. ed. History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 1. The dawn of civilization: earliest times to 700 B.C. UNESCO. Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited. Delhi.</ref> "In the 12th century BC chariot warfare tactics lost their importance in Andronovo society; mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers."<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Camels ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' "Cattle and particularly ovicaprids, horses and Bactrian camels were reared."<ref>(Kuzʹmina 2007, 238) J P Mallory ed. Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> "The cults of Khorezm are also evidenced by figurines of the horse and camel."<ref>(Kuzʹmina 2007, 238) J P Mallory ed. Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> ''Probably used as pack animals.''
:''' ♠ Elephants ♣ absent ♥ '''
====Armor====

:''' ♠ Wood, bark, etc ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore.  Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Leather, cloth ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore. Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Shields ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore. Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Helmets ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore. Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Breastplates ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Limb protection ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore. Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Chainmail ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Mail was later a typical armour of steppe zone nomadic culture but the from date is not specified (probably after this polity as it was invented in Europe?): "Lively contacts and easy communications promoted the rise and spread of a fairly uniform nomadic culture in the steppe zone. The same types of horse-harness (bridle, bit, cheek-piece, saddle, trappings), arms (bow, bow-case, arrow and quiver, sword, battle-axe, mail) and garments (trousers, caftan, waist-girdle, boots, pointed cap) were used in the steppe zone from Central Europe to Korea."<ref>(Harmatta 1994, 476-477) Harmatta, J. Conclusion. in Harmatta, Janos. Puri, B. N. Etemadi, G. F. eds. 1994. History of Civilizations of Central Asia. Volume II. The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizatins 700 B.C. to A.D. 250. UNESCO Publishing.</ref>
:''' ♠ Scaled armor ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Probably present for the Andronovo charioteers but by the 12th century BCE "mounted horsemen armed with bows and arrows replaced chariot drivers"<ref>(Kuz'mina 2007, 138) Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. J P Mallory ed. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> so we need to know what armour (if any) they wore. Tazabagyab culture is considered to have had its origin in Andronovo culture.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref> Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE). Tazabagyab culture (15th - 11th), Suyarganskaya culture (11th - 9th), Amirabad culture (9th - 8th).
:''' ♠ Laminar armor ♣ suspected unknown  ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Plate armor ♣ suspected unknown  ♥ '''

====Naval technology====

:''' ♠ Small vessels (canoes, etc) ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' "As distinct from the other steppe cultures, Khorezm's economy was based on irrigation farming. The 150-200m long canals would irrigate small rectangular fields."<ref>(Kuzʹmina 2007, 238) J P Mallory ed. Elena Efimovna Kuzʹmina. 2007. The Origin of the Indo-Iranians. BRILL. Leiden.</ref> ''Navigation for rivers and some canals?''
:''' ♠ Merchant ships pressed into service ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Specialized military vessels ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''

====Fortifications====

:'''♠ Settlements in a defensive position ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Wooden palisades ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE) had defensive fortifications such as pallisades, ditches and earth ramparts at many sites.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref>
:''' ♠ Earth ramparts ♣ inferred present ♥ ''' Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE) had defensive fortifications such as pallisades, ditches and earth ramparts at many sites.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref>
:''' ♠ Ditch ♣ suspected unknown ♥ ''' Andronovo culture (2000-900 BCE, Alakul phase 2100-1400 BCE, Fedorovo phase 1400-1200 BCE, Alekseyevka phase 1200-1000 BCE) had defensive fortifications such as pallisades, ditches and earth ramparts at many sites.<ref>(Mallory 1997, 20-21) J P Mallory. Andronovo culture. J P Mallory. D Q Adams. eds. 1997. Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers. Chicago.</ref>
:''' ♠ Moat ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Stone walls (non-mortared) ♣ suspected unknown  ♥ ''' About Kiuzeli-g'ir: "The first, in northern Turkmenistan, consists of long walls with rounded towers, the walls containing corridors which have been called 'living walls' by Tolstov (Fig. 3). This complex is dated in about the 6th century BC and substantiates cultural, and thus probably also economic, contacts far to the south, as far as north-west India." <ref>(Helms 1998, 88)</ref>
:''' ♠ Stone walls (mortared) ♣ suspected unknown  ♥ ''' About Kiuzeli-g'ir: "The first, in northern Turkmenistan, consists of long walls with rounded towers, the walls containing corridors which have been called 'living walls' by Tolstov (Fig. 3). This complex is dated in about the 6th century BC and substantiates cultural, and thus probably also economic, contacts far to the south, as far as north-west India." <ref>(Helms 1998, 88)</ref>
:''' ♠ Fortified camps ♣ suspected unknown ♥ '''
:''' ♠ Complex fortifications ♣ present ♥ ''' "Another early city of the same date, Kalalî-gîr, was surrounded by triple walls with bastions and had four gates with entrance barbicans and a hill-top palace, but it was never completed."<ref>(Negmatov 1994: 446) Seshat URL: https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/itemKey/2ZC77C82.</ref>
:''' ♠ Long walls ♣  ♥ ''' km.
:''' ♠ Modern fortifications ♣ absent ♥ '''

=Phase II Variables (polity-based)=


==Institutional Variables==

'''♠ RA ♣ Jenny Reddish ♥'''

===Limits on Power of the Chief Executive===

====Power distributed====

: '''♠ Constraint on executive by government ♣ ♥'''
: '''♠ Constraint on executive by non-government ♣ ♥'''
: '''♠ Impeachment ♣ ♥'''

==Social Mobility==

===Status===

'''Elite status'''
: '''♠ elite status is hereditary ♣ inferred present ♥''' 'In the southern Aral region, the sedentary farmers and pastoralists of the Chorasmian oasis represent the Late Bronze Age Amirabad cultural pattern seen in the Dzhanbas and Yakka-Parsan settlements. At that time they had master craftsmen (the "house of the caster") with settled houses and social gradations'.<ref>(Negmatov 1994, 446) N. N. Negmatov. 1994. 'States in North-Western Central Asia', in ''History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Vol II: The Development of Sedentary and Nomadic Civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250'', edited by János Harmatta, 432-47. Paris: UNESCO Publishing.</ref> This evidence for stratification coupled with sedentism might indicate that elite status and wealth could be passed down to one's children.
==Religion and Normative Ideology==

'''♠ RA ♣ ♥'''

===Deification of Rulers===

'''♠ Rulers are legitimated by gods ♣ suspected unknown ♥'''

'''♠ Rulers are gods ♣ suspected unknown ♥'''

===Normative Ideological Aspects of Equity and Prosociality===

'''♠ Ideological reinforcement of equality ♣ ♥'''
: '''♠ Ideological thought equates rulers and commoners ♣ ♥'''
: '''♠ Ideological thought equates elites and commoners ♣ ♥'''
'''♠ Ideology reinforces prosociality ♣ ♥'''
:'''♠ production of public goods ♣ ♥'''
===Moralizing Supernatural Powers===

:'''♠ Moral concern is primary ♣ inferred absent ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement is certain ♣ inferred absent ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing norms are broad ♣ inferred absent ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement is targeted ♣ absent_to_present ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement of rulers ♣ inferred present ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing religion adopted by elites ♣ inferred present ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing religion adopted by commoners ♣ inferred present ♥''' 
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement in afterlife ♣ inferred absent ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement in this life ♣ suspected unknown ♥'''
:'''♠ Moralizing enforcement is agentic ♣ suspected unknown ♥'''
These data were reviewed by expert advisors and consultants. For a detailed description of these data, refer to the relevant Analytic Narratives, reference tables, and acknowledgements page.
<ref>http://seshatdatabank.info/databrowser/moralizing-supernatural-punishment-acknowledgements.html</ref>
<ref>http://seshatdatabank.info/databrowser/moralizing-supernatural-punishment-narratives.html</ref>
<ref>http://seshatdatabank.info/databrowser/moralizing-supernatural-punishment-nga_tables.html</ref>

=References=

<references />

Helms, S. 1998. Ancient Chorasmia: The Northern Edge of Central Asia from the 6th Century BC to  the mid-4th century AC. In D. Christia and C. Benjamin (eds.) Silk Road Studies II: Worlds of the Silk Roads: Ancient and Modern. Proceedings from the Second Conference of the Australasian Society for Inner Asian Studies (A.S.I.A.S.). Macquarie University, September 21-22, 1996. pp. 77-96. Brepols: Ancient History Documentary Research Centre, Macquarie University, NSW Australia.[[Category:Polity]][[Category:WS30Polity]]