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
141
(Yemen - Ottoman period)
Full Year Range of Yemen - Ottoman period is assumed.
[1873, 1920]
present
None
142
(Egypt - Dynasty I)
Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty I is assumed.
[-3100, -2900]
present
None
143
(Sukhotai)
Full Year Range of Sukhotai is assumed.
[1238, 1419]
present
None
144
(Tahert)
Full Year Range of Tahert is assumed.
[761, 909]
present
None
145
(Viet Baiyu Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Viet Baiyu Kingdom is assumed.
[-332, -109]
present
None
146
(Yueban)
Full Year Range of Yueban is assumed.
[350, 450]
unknown
None
147
(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III)
Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III is assumed.
[1412, 1517]
present
None
148
(Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)
Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period is assumed.
[-1293, -1070]
present
None
149
(Egypt - Late Old Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Egypt - Late Old Kingdom is assumed.
[-2350, -2150]
present
None
150
(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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