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
21	(Kingdom of Congo)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Congo is assumed. [1491, 1568]	unknown	None
22	(Kingdom of Georgia II)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Georgia II is assumed. [975, 1243]	unknown	None
23	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1270, 1415]	unknown	None
24	(Mauretania)	Full Year Range of Mauretania is assumed. [-125, 44]	unknown	None
25	(Monte Alban V Early Postclassic)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V Early Postclassic is assumed. [900, 1099]	absent	None
26	(Monte Alban V Late Postclassic)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V Late Postclassic is assumed. [1101, 1520]	absent	None
27	(Numidia)	Full Year Range of Numidia is assumed. [-220, -46]	unknown	None
28	(Ottoman Empire Late Period)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Empire Late Period is assumed. [1873, 1920]	absent	None
29	(Songhai Empire)	Full Year Range of Songhai Empire is assumed. [1376, 1493]	present	None
30	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	unknown	None

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