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
161	(Susa I)	Full Year Range of Susa I is assumed. [-4300, -3800]	unknown	None
162	(Latium - Bronze Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Bronze Age is assumed. [-1800, -900]	absent	None
163	(Latium - Copper Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Copper Age is assumed. [-3600, -1800]	absent	None
164	(Ostrogothic Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Ostrogothic Kingdom is assumed. [489, 554]	present	None
165	(Rome - Republic of St Peter II)	Full Year Range of Rome - Republic of St Peter II is assumed. [904, 1198]	absent	None
166	(Papal States - High Medieval Period)	Full Year Range of Papal States - High Medieval Period is assumed. [1198, 1309]	absent	None
167	(Papal States - Renaissance Period)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Renaissance Period is assumed. [1378, 1527]	absent	None
168	(Exarchate of Ravenna)	Full Year Range of Exarchate of Ravenna is assumed. [568, 751]	absent	None
169	(Western Roman Empire - Late Antiquity)	Full Year Range of Western Roman Empire - Late Antiquity is assumed. [395, 476]	present	None
170	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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