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
51	(Tlemcen)	Full Year Range of Tlemcen is assumed. [1235, 1554]	absent	None
52	(Wattasid)	Full Year Range of Wattasid is assumed. [1465, 1554]	unknown	None
53	(Yueban)	Full Year Range of Yueban is assumed. [350, 450]	unknown	None
54	(Zagwe)	Full Year Range of Zagwe is assumed. [1137, 1269]	unknown	None
55	(Zirids)	Full Year Range of Zirids is assumed. [973, 1148]	unknown	None
56	(Iban - Pre-Brooke)	Full Year Range of Iban - Pre-Brooke is assumed. [1650, 1841]	absent	None
57	(Majapahit Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Majapahit Kingdom is assumed. [1292, 1518]	unknown	None
58	(Greco-Bactrian Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom is assumed. [-256, -125]	present	None
59	(Yemen Ziyad Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Yemen Ziyad Dynasty is assumed. [822, 1037]	present	None
60	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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