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
141	(Mataram Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Mataram Sultanate is assumed. [1568, 1755]	unknown	None
142	(Medang Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Medang Kingdom is assumed. [732, 1019]	unknown	None
143	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	unknown	None
144	(Yehuda)	Full Year Range of Yehuda is assumed. [-141, -63]	unknown	None
145	(Yisrael)	Full Year Range of Yisrael is assumed. [-1030, -722]	unknown	None
146	(Deccan - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Iron Age is assumed. [-1200, -300]	absent	None
147	(Deccan - Neolithic)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Neolithic is assumed. [-2700, -1200]	absent	None
148	(Abbasid Caliphate II)	Full Year Range of Abbasid Caliphate II is assumed. [1191, 1258]	unknown	None
149	(Early Dynastic)	Full Year Range of Early Dynastic is assumed. [-2900, -2500]	unknown	None
150	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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