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
121	(Archaic Crete)	Full Year Range of Archaic Crete is assumed. [-710, -500]	absent	None
122	(Classical Crete)	Full Year Range of Classical Crete is assumed. [-500, -323]	absent	None
123	(The Emirate of Crete)	Full Year Range of The Emirate of Crete is assumed. [824, 961]	absent	None
124	(Final Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Final Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1200, -1000]	absent	None
125	(Geometric Crete)	Full Year Range of Geometric Crete is assumed. [-1000, -710]	absent	None
126	(Hellenistic Crete)	Full Year Range of Hellenistic Crete is assumed. [-323, -69]	absent	None
127	(Neolithic Crete)	Full Year Range of Neolithic Crete is assumed. [-7000, -3000]	absent	None
128	(Monopalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Monopalatial Crete is assumed. [-1450, -1300]	absent	None
129	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	unknown	None
130	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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