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
31	(Chu Kingdom - Spring and Autumn Period)	Full Year Range of Chu Kingdom - Spring and Autumn Period is assumed. [-740, -489]	present	None
32	(Middle Greater Coclé)	Full Year Range of Middle Greater Coclé is assumed. [700, 1000]	absent	None
33	(Mauretania)	Full Year Range of Mauretania is assumed. [-125, 44]	unknown	None
34	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	None
35	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1270, 1415]	unknown	None
36	(Monte Alban V Late Postclassic)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V Late Postclassic is assumed. [1101, 1520]	absent	None
37	(Numidia)	Full Year Range of Numidia is assumed. [-220, -46]	unknown	None
38	(Jin Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Jin Dynasty is assumed. [1115, 1234]	present	None
39	(Great Ming)	Full Year Range of Great Ming is assumed. [1368, 1644]	present	None
40	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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