You will probably be interested in Seshat: the Global History Databank, a project led by Turchin. We’re still a long way from standard benchmarks, mind you, but we’re at least on the way to a database upon which any kind of quantitative work can be done.
You will probably be interested in Seshat: the Global History Databank, a project led by Turchin. We’re still a long way from standard benchmarks, mind you, but we’re at least on the way to a database upon which any kind of quantitative work can be done.
They recently cracked the problem of whether big gods or big societies came first.