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
51	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None
52	(British Empire I)	Full Year Range of British Empire I is assumed. [1690, 1849]	present	None
53	(Napoleonic France)	Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed. [1816, 1870]	present	None
54	(Plantagenet England)	Full Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed. [1154, 1485]	absent	None
55	(La Tene C2-D)	Full Year Range of La Tene C2-D is assumed. [-175, -27]	unknown	None
56	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Valois is assumed. [1328, 1450]	unknown	None
57	(French Kingdom - Late Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Valois is assumed. [1450, 1589]	unknown	None
58	(British Empire II)	Full Year Range of British Empire II is assumed. [1850, 1968]	present	None
59	(Akan - Pre-Ashanti)	Full Year Range of Akan - Pre-Ashanti is assumed. [1501, 1701]	absent	None
60	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	unknown	None

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