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
61	(Papal States - Early Modern Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Early Modern Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None
62	(Early Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Early Roman Republic is assumed. [-509, -264]	absent	None
63	(Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period)	Full Year Range of Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period is assumed. [854, 1193]	unknown	None
64	(Ghur Principality)	Full Year Range of Ghur Principality is assumed. [1025, 1215]	unknown	None
65	(Monte Alban V Late Postclassic)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban V Late Postclassic is assumed. [1101, 1520]	absent	Sources do not suggest there is evidence for a postal system during this period. [Flannery_Marcus 1996]
66	(Kadamba Empire)	Full Year Range of Kadamba Empire is assumed. [345, 550]	unknown	unknown
67	(Rashtrakuta Empire)	Full Year Range of Rashtrakuta Empire is assumed. [753, 973]	unknown	unknown
68	(Hawaii I)	Full Year Range of Hawaii I is assumed. [1000, 1200]	unknown	None
69	(Hawaii II)	Full Year Range of Hawaii II is assumed. [1200, 1580]	absent	None
70	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT

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