Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

Talking about postal sytems, postal stations are specialized buildings exclusively devoted to the postal service. if there is a special building that has other functions than a postal station, we still code postal station as present. the intent is to capture additional infrastructure beyond having a corps of messengers. (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
postal_station	The absence or presence of postal station for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Postal Station	Description	Edit
91	(Proto-French Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Proto-French Kingdom is assumed. [987, 1150]	absent	None
92	(Chalukyas of Kalyani)	Full Year Range of Chalukyas of Kalyani is assumed. [973, 1189]	unknown	None
93	(Neguanje)	Full Year Range of Neguanje is assumed. [250, 1050]	unknown	None
94	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	absent	None
95	(Egypt - Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty I is assumed. [-3100, -2900]	absent	None
96	(Egypt - Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty II is assumed. [-2900, -2687]	absent	None
97	(Egypt - Middle Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Middle Kingdom is assumed. [-2016, -1700]	absent	None
98	(Naqada I)	Full Year Range of Naqada I is assumed. [-3800, -3550]	absent	None
99	(Naqada II)	Full Year Range of Naqada II is assumed. [-3550, -3300]	absent	None
100	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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