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
251	(Magadha - Maurya Empire)	Full Year Range of Magadha - Maurya Empire is assumed. [-324, -187]	present	None
252	(Mughal Empire)	Full Year Range of Mughal Empire is assumed. [1526, 1858]	present	None
253	(Abbasid Caliphate I)	Full Year Range of Abbasid Caliphate I is assumed. [750, 946]	present	None
254	(Ilkhanate)	Full Year Range of Ilkhanate is assumed. [1256, 1339]	present	None
255	(Holy Roman Empire - Hohenstaufen and Welf Dynasties)	Full Year Range of Holy Roman Empire - Hohenstaufen and Welf Dynasties is assumed. [1126, 1254]	present	None
256	(Parthian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Parthian Empire II is assumed. [41, 226]	present	None
257	(Akkadian Empire)	Full Year Range of Akkadian Empire is assumed. [-2270, -2083]	present	None
258	(Amorite Babylonia)	Full Year Range of Amorite Babylonia is assumed. [-2000, -1600]	present	None
259	(Kassite Babylonia)	Full Year Range of Kassite Babylonia is assumed. [-1595, -1150]	present	None
260	(Bazi Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Bazi Dynasty is assumed. [-1005, -986]	present	None

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