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
311	(Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period is assumed. [-1293, -1070]	unknown	None
312	(Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period is assumed. [-1550, -1293]	absent	None
313	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom II is assumed. [-217, -30]	present	None
314	(Ashikaga Shogunate)	Full Year Range of Ashikaga Shogunate is assumed. [1336, 1467]	present	None
315	(Egypt - Tulunid-Ikhshidid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Tulunid-Ikhshidid Period is assumed. [868, 969]	present	None
316	(Chuuk - Late Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Late Truk is assumed. [1886, 1948]	absent	None
317	(French Kingdom - Early Bourbon)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Bourbon is assumed. [1589, 1660]	present	None
318	(French Kingdom - Late Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Valois is assumed. [1450, 1589]	present	None
319	(Ashanti Empire)	Full Year Range of Ashanti Empire is assumed. [1701, 1895]	absent	None
320	(Hawaii III)	Full Year Range of Hawaii III is assumed. [1580, 1778]	absent	None

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