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
131	(Early Mongols)	Full Year Range of Early Mongols is assumed. [1000, 1206]	absent	None
132	(Vijayanagara Empire)	Full Year Range of Vijayanagara Empire is assumed. [1336, 1646]	present	None
133	(Abbasid Caliphate II)	Full Year Range of Abbasid Caliphate II is assumed. [1191, 1258]	present	None
134	(Early Dynastic)	Full Year Range of Early Dynastic is assumed. [-2900, -2500]	present	None
135	(Neo-Assyrian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Assyrian Empire is assumed. [-911, -612]	present	None
136	(Neo-Babylonian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Babylonian Empire is assumed. [-626, -539]	present	None
137	(Uruk)	Full Year Range of Uruk is assumed. [-4000, -2900]	present	None
138	(Parthian Empire I)	Full Year Range of Parthian Empire I is assumed. [-247, 40]	present	None
139	(Seljuk Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Seljuk Sultanate is assumed. [1037, 1157]	present	None
140	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	unknown	None

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