Тип публикации: статья из журнала

Год издания: 2017

Аннотация: Many researchers, from Edward Gibbon to Arnold Toynbee, were interested in how large polities would emerge and collapse. Traditionally, the history of empires was considered both in temporal and spatial dynamics. This article focuses on the study of the external manifestations of polities' structural features which may be expressedПоказать полностьюby a limited set of mathematical curves described by the specified Zipf's law. An ideal Zipf's curve is characteristic of the classical empires with complex economies (China, Rome, and others). However, the curves of some empires have a distinctive feature - an 'imperial tail'. The simpler the structure of large polities is, the closer is the line describing their livelihoods to a right line. © 2017 'Uchitel' Publishing House.

Журнал: Social Evolution and History

Выпуск журнала: Vol. 16, Is. 2

Номера страниц: 112-125

ISSN журнала: 16814363

Издатель: Izdatel'skii Dom Uchitel

• Guzev M.A. (Far Eastern Federal University, Institute for Applied Mathematics, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation)
• Kradin N.N. (Inst. of History, Archaeology, Ethnology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Inst. of Mongolian, Buddhist, Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Federal University, Russian Federation)
• Nikitina E. (Far Eastern Federal University, Russian Federation)

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