Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Specialized Buildings

Irrigation System

Talking about specialized buildings, irrigation systems are polity owned (which includes owned by the community, or the state), no Descriptions IN Codebook   (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]
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Variable Definition
irrigation_system The absence or presence of irrigation system for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Irrigation System Description   Edit
1
(Early Formative Basin of Mexico)
1200 BCE 901 BCE
unknown
None
2
(Early Formative Basin of Mexico)
900 BCE 801 BCE
present
None
3
(Hawaii II)
1200 CE 1390 CE
absent
None
4
(Hawaii II)
1390 CE 1580 CE
present
None
5
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
None
6
(Soviet Union)
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
None
7
(Qin Empire)
Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed.
[-338, -207]
present
None
8
(Gauda Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Gauda Kingdom is assumed.
[600, 625]
present
None
9
(Peiligang)
Full Year Range of Peiligang is assumed.
[-7000, -5001]
unknown
None
10
(Macedonian Empire)
Full Year Range of Macedonian Empire is assumed.
[-330, -312]
present
None
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