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
101	(Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2650, -2350]	absent	None
102	(Egypt - Late Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Late Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2350, -2150]	absent	None
103	(Egypt - Period of the Regions)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Period of the Regions is assumed. [-2150, -2016]	absent	None
104	(Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period is assumed. [-1720, -1567]	absent	None
105	(Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period is assumed. [-1069, -747]	absent	None
106	(Axum I)	Full Year Range of Axum I is assumed. [-149, 349]	unknown	None
107	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None
108	(Beaker Culture)	Full Year Range of Beaker Culture is assumed. [-3200, -2000]	unknown	None
109	(Carolingian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Carolingian Empire II is assumed. [840, 987]	absent	None
110	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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