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
11	(Almoravids)	Full Year Range of Almoravids is assumed. [1035, 1150]	present	None
12	(Avar Khaganate)	Full Year Range of Avar Khaganate is assumed. [586, 822]	unknown	None
13	(Axum II)	Full Year Range of Axum II is assumed. [350, 599]	unknown	None
14	(Axum III)	Full Year Range of Axum III is assumed. [600, 800]	unknown	None
15	(Portuguese Empire - Early Modern)	Full Year Range of Portuguese Empire - Early Modern is assumed. [1640, 1806]	present	None
16	(Qin Empire)	Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed. [-338, -207]	present	None
17	(Chu Kingdom - Warring States Period)	Full Year Range of Chu Kingdom - Warring States Period is assumed. [-488, -223]	present	None
18	(Chu Kingdom - Spring and Autumn Period)	Full Year Range of Chu Kingdom - Spring and Autumn Period is assumed. [-740, -489]	present	None
19	(Crimean Khanate)	Full Year Range of Crimean Khanate is assumed. [1440, 1783]	unknown	None
20	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	None

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