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)

Contributors:

Metadata:

Download MetaData

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.

Actual Data:

Add More Facts Download All See One-Page Mode

#	Polity	Year(s)	Postal Station	Description	Edit
81	(Ottoman Emirate)	Full Year Range of Ottoman Emirate is assumed. [1299, 1402]	present	None
82	(Early Mongols)	Full Year Range of Early Mongols is assumed. [1000, 1206]	absent	None
83	(Five Dynasties Period)	Full Year Range of Five Dynasties Period is assumed. [906, 970]	uncoded	None
84	(Atlantic Complex)	Full Year Range of Atlantic Complex is assumed. [-2200, -1000]	unknown	None
85	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Valois is assumed. [1328, 1450]	uncoded	None
86	(Hatti - New Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Hatti - New Kingdom is assumed. [-1400, -1180]	uncoded	unknown
87	(Hephthalite Empire)	Full Year Range of Hephthalite Empire is assumed. [408, 561]	uncoded	unknown
88	(Banu Ghaniya)	Full Year Range of Banu Ghaniya is assumed. [1126, 1227]	absent	EMPTY_COMMENT
89	(Plantagenet England)	Full Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed. [1154, 1485]	absent	None
90	(Qin Empire)	Full Year Range of Qin Empire is assumed. [-338, -207]	present	From the Shang period roads considered important enough to be "controlled by a special official" [Lindqvist 2009] but references to post usually begin with the Qin's First Emperor who "constructed post roads across his empire". [Mokyr 2003, p. 391]

Page 9 (of 39)