Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Transport infrastructure

Canal

Talking about transport infrastructure, canals refers to canals built and/or maintained by the polity (that is, code 'present' even if the polity did not build a canal, 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]
Verified	A Seshat Expert has approved this piece of data.

Variable	Definition
canal	The absence or presence of canal for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Canal	Description	Edit
1	(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)	1614 CE 1706 CE	absent	None
2	(Russian Empire, Romanov Dynasty I)	1706 CE 1775 CE	present	None
3	(Spanish Empire II)	1716 CE 1814 CE	present	None
4	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
5	(Nawabs of Bengal)	Full Year Range of Nawabs of Bengal is assumed. [1717, 1757]	present	None
6	(Qin Empire)	Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed. [-338, -207]	present	None
7	(Five Dynasties Period)	Full Year Range of Five Dynasties Period is assumed. [906, 970]	present	None
8	(Macedonian Empire)	Full Year Range of Macedonian Empire is assumed. [-330, -312]	uncoded	None
9	(British East India Company)	Full Year Range of British East India Company is assumed. [1757, 1858]	present	None
10	(Eastern Zhou)	Full Year Range of Eastern Zhou is assumed. [-475, -256]	present	None

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