Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Transport infrastructure

Bridge

bridges refers to bridges built and/or maintained by the polity (that is, code 'present' even if the polity did not build a bridge, but devotes resources to maintaining it).   (See here)
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Variable Definition
Polity The Seshat Polity ID
Year(s) The years for which we have the data. [negative = BCE]
Tag [Evidenced, Disputed, Suspected, Inferred, Unknown]
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Variable Definition
bridge The absence or presence of bridge for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Bridge Description   Edit
111
(Ubaid)
Full Year Range of Ubaid is assumed.
[-5500, -4000]
unknown
None
112
(Ur - Dynasty III)
Full Year Range of Ur - Dynasty III is assumed.
[-2112, -2004]
unknown
None
113
(Napoleonic France)
Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed.
[1816, 1870]
present
Bridges were built and maintained across France.§REF§Clapham 1955: 147-150. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/2QKQJQM3.§REF§
114
(Susiana - Muhammad Jaffar)
Full Year Range of Susiana - Muhammad Jaffar is assumed.
[-7000, -6000]
unknown
None
115
(Formative Period)
Full Year Range of Formative Period is assumed.
[-7200, -7000]
unknown
None
116
(Susiana B)
Full Year Range of Susiana B is assumed.
[-5700, -5100]
unknown
None
117
(Susiana - Late Ubaid)
Full Year Range of Susiana - Late Ubaid is assumed.
[-4700, -4300]
unknown
None
118
(Xixia)
Full Year Range of Xixia is assumed.
[1032, 1227]
present
"There are two Xixia steles surviving to this day in the former Xixia region: one is the "Inspiration Pagoda Stele in Honor of the Occasion of Rebuilding the Protect-the-State Temple" at Wuwei of Gansu Province, the other is the "Royal Stele in Honor of the Occasion of Building the Heishui Bridge at Zhangye. The former was carved in Xixia and Chinese characters, while the latter in Chinese and Tibetan writing."§REF§(? 1997, 568) Helmut Krasser ed?. International Association for Tibetan Studies. 1997. Tibetan Studies, Volume 256. Part 2. Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.§REF§
119
(Yueban)
Full Year Range of Yueban is assumed.
[350, 450]
unknown
The Yueban were part of northern Xiongnu, who inhabited in the upper Hi River during the fourth and fifth centuries."§REF§(Li and Hansen 2003, 63) Jian Li. Valerie Hansen. 2003. The glory of the silk road: art from ancient China. The Dayton Art Institute.§REF§ "From limited references in the Beishi (Northern histories) and the Weishu (History of the Wei), we know that the Yueban had a well-developed kingdom, with a population of two hundred thousand that spanned thousands of kilometers, in the area north of Kucha."§REF§(Li and Hansen 2003, 63) Jian Li. Valerie Hansen. 2003. The glory of the silk road: art from ancient China. The Dayton Art Institute.§REF§
120
(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I)
Full Year Range of Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I is assumed.
[1454, 1648]
present
Bridges were present, built and maintained throughout the period. §REF§(Curtis 2013: 48) Curtis, Benjamin. 2013. The Habsburgs: The History of a Dynasty. London; New York: Bloomsbury. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/TRKUBP92§REF§
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