Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

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]
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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	(Us Reconstruction-Progressive)	Full Year Range of Us Reconstruction-Progressive is assumed. [1866, 1933]	present	None
92	(Antebellum US)	Full Year Range of Antebellum US is assumed. [1776, 1865]	present	None
93	(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Austria - Habsburg Dynasty I is assumed. [1454, 1648]	absent	None
94	(Golden Horde)	Full Year Range of Golden Horde is assumed. [1240, 1440]	present	None
95	(British Empire I)	Full Year Range of British Empire I is assumed. [1690, 1849]	present	None
96	(Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period)	Full Year Range of Kingdom of Hawaii - Post-Kamehameha Period is assumed. [1820, 1898]	present	None
97	(Napoleonic France)	Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed. [1816, 1870]	present	None
98	(England Tudor-Stuart)	Full Year Range of England Tudor-Stuart is assumed. [1486, 1689]	A~P	None
99	(Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty is assumed. [919, 1125]	absent	None
100	(Qin Empire)	Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed. [-338, -207]	present	From the Shang period roads considered important enough to be "controlled by a special official" [Lindqvist 2009] but references to post usually begin with the Qin's First Emperor who "constructed post roads across his empire". [Mokyr 2003, p. 391]

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