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]
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
181	(Ptolemaic Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom I is assumed. [-305, -217]	present	None
182	(Egypt - Saite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Saite Period is assumed. [-664, -525]	unknown	None
183	(French Kingdom - Late Bourbon)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Bourbon is assumed. [1660, 1815]	present	None
184	(Mataram Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Mataram Sultanate is assumed. [1568, 1755]	unknown	None
185	(Medang Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Medang Kingdom is assumed. [732, 1019]	unknown	None
186	(Canaan)	Full Year Range of Canaan is assumed. [-2000, -1175]	unknown	None
187	(Yehuda)	Full Year Range of Yehuda is assumed. [-141, -63]	unknown	None
188	(Yisrael)	Full Year Range of Yisrael is assumed. [-1030, -722]	unknown	None
189	(Deccan - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Iron Age is assumed. [-1200, -300]	absent	None
190	(Elymais II)	Full Year Range of Elymais II is assumed. [25, 215]	present	None

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