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
221	(Longshan)	Full Year Range of Longshan is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	present	None
222	(Great Ming)	Full Year Range of Great Ming is assumed. [1368, 1644]	present	None
223	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
224	(Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Late Qing is assumed. [1796, 1912]	present	None
225	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None
226	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
227	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	present	None
228	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	unknown	None
229	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
230	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	unknown	None

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