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
81	(Ghur Principality)	Full Year Range of Ghur Principality is assumed. [1025, 1215]	unknown	None
82	(Hmong - Early Chinese)	Full Year Range of Hmong - Early Chinese is assumed. [1895, 1941]	present	None
83	(Early Mongols)	Full Year Range of Early Mongols is assumed. [1000, 1206]	absent	None
84	(Chalukyas of Badami)	Full Year Range of Chalukyas of Badami is assumed. [543, 753]	unknown	None
85	(Late Mongols)	Full Year Range of Late Mongols is assumed. [1368, 1690]	absent	None
86	(Rashtrakuta Empire)	Full Year Range of Rashtrakuta Empire is assumed. [753, 973]	unknown	None
87	(Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period)	Full Year Range of Sind - Abbasid-Fatimid Period is assumed. [854, 1193]	unknown	None
88	(Hmong - Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Hmong - Late Qing is assumed. [1701, 1895]	absent	None
89	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
90	(Malacca Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Malacca Sultanate is assumed. [1396, 1511]	unknown	None

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