Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Specialized Buildings

Irrigation System

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
131
(British Empire II)
Full Year Range of British Empire II is assumed.
[1850, 1968]
present
None
132
(Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Kingdom of Bohemia - Luxembourgian and Jagiellonian Dynasty is assumed.
[1310, 1526]
present
None
133
(Monagrillo)
Full Year Range of Monagrillo is assumed.
[-3000, -1300]
absent
'In some parts of the world [agricultural risk-minimization] was accomplished through infrastructure such as dams and large-scale irrigation canals [...] but there is no evidence for such features among the regions of Central Panama.' [Berrey 2015, p. 207]
134
(Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty is assumed.
[919, 1125]
absent
None
135
(Kingdom of Georgia II)
Full Year Range of Kingdom of Georgia II is assumed.
[975, 1243]
present
None
136
(Makuria Kingdom I)
Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom I is assumed.
[568, 618]
present
None
137
(Makuria Kingdom II)
Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom II is assumed.
[619, 849]
present
None
138
(Makuria Kingdom III)
Full Year Range of Makuria Kingdom III is assumed.
[850, 1099]
present
None
139
(Mauretania)
Full Year Range of Mauretania is assumed.
[-125, 44]
present
None
140
(Chaulukya Dynasty)
Full Year Range of Chaulukya Dynasty is assumed.
[941, 1245]
present
"We learn from Sridhara's Devattapana-prasasti that one of his ancestors was commissioned by Mularaja I to dig square and round wells and tanks (vapi-kupa-tadaga), which shows clearly that from the beginning of the Chaulukya rule officers were employed to look after the irrigation of the country." [Majumdar 1956, p. 216]
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