Home›Empires and Imperial States›EraBrowse ByEraThis dimension groups polities by the era in which they existed. Wikipedia defines a polity as "a group of people with a collective identity, who are organized by some form of political, institutionalized, social relations and have a capacity to mobilize resources," a definition that has taken very different shapes across different eras. Browsing by era lets a visitor compare polities that existed in the same period.FactsEraSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonStart YearWell-attested2300 BCE 1EraFilter Results12 entriesGovernment TypeAllColonialism (3)Confederation (3)Dictatorship (1)Empire (5)Federation (1)Feudalism (1)Monarchy (12)Theocracy (2)Dated SpanAll-1894 to -1595 (1)-321 to -185 (1)-550 to -330 (1)-626 to -539 (1)-911 to -609 (1)1154 to 1204 (1)1206 to 1260 (1)1256 to 1335 (1)1270 to 1974 (3)1299 to 1922 (1)1370 to 1507 (2)1438 to 1533 (2)1464 to 1591 (1)1492 to 1976 (2)1526 to 1857 (2)1583 to 1997 (1)1701 to 1902 (2)1721 to 1917 (1)1860 to 1898 (1)1867 to 1918 (1)1868 to 1947 (2)1871 to 1918 (1)1933 to 1945 (1)224 to 651 (2)250 to 550 (1)330 to 1453 (1)632 to 842 (1)802 to 1431 (1)962 to 1806 (1)Size at PeakAll13,700,000 to 35,500,000 (4)2,000,000 to 3,500,000 (3)255,804 to 1,950,000 (1)3,750,000 to 5,200,000 (4)5,500,000 to 11,100,000 (3)Population at PeakAll11,100,000 to 15,700,000 (2)27,000,000 to 40,169,219 (1)44,000,000 to 64,925,993 (3)75,000,000 to 161,000,000 (4)Status (Extant or Former)AllFormer / Dissolved (12)Merged or Absorbed (4)Succeeded or Renamed (2)CapitalAllAddis Ababa (from 1889) (3)Agra, later Delhi, Shahjahanabad (2)Angkor (Yasodharapura) (1)Antioch (1)Babylon (1)Babylon, on the Euphrates in central Mesopotamia (1)Berlin (1)Bissandugu (1875-1893) (1)Constantinople (1)Constantinople (Istanbul after 1453) (1)Cusco (2)Gao (1)Kumasi (2)Kyoto (2)Lhasa (1)London (1)Madrid (2)Maragheh (1)Paris (1)Pataliputra (1)Saint Petersburg (Moscow before 1712) (1)Samarkand (2)Seleucia (1)Soltaniyeh (1)Tabriz (1)Tokyo (2)Valladolid (2)Vienna and Budapest (dual capitals) (1)Defining KindAllCulture (1)End YearAll1200 BCE (1)476 (1)550 (1)1300 (1)1453 (1)1572 (1)1591 (1)1620 (1)1707 (1)1789 (1)1945 (1)Length of the Period in YearsAll202 (1)Start YearAll3200 BCE (1)800 BCE (1)250 (1)476 (1)1000 (1)1235 (1)1418 (1)1438 (1)1453 (1)1556 (1)1789 (1)1945 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareThe Age of DiscoveryEra1 entryThe Ancient Near East and Bronze Age WorldEra1 entryClassical AntiquityEra10 entriesThe Contemporary PeriodEra9 entriesThe Early Modern PeriodEra39 entriesThe Gupta Golden AgeEra1 entryThe High Middle AgesEra2 entriesThe Inca Imperial PeriodEra1 entryThe Late Modern PeriodEra25 entriesThe Mali and Songhai Imperial PeriodEra1 entryThe Mughal Golden AgeEra1 entryThe Post-Classical and Medieval PeriodEra37 entriesSources1. Wikipedia: Akkadian Empiretier 2WikipediaAkkadian Empire, lead section, first-empire sentenceQuote, Akkadian Empire, lead section, first-empire sentenceThe Akkadian Empire ... was an ancient kingdom established around 2300 BCE, often seen as the first empire in world history.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.