Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Bureaucracy characteristics

Specialized Government Building

Talking about bureaucracy characteristics, these buildings are where administrative officials are located, and must be distinct from the ruler's palace. they may be used for document storage, registration offices, minting money, etc. defense structures also are not coded here (see military). state-owned/operated workshop should also not be coded here. (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
specialized_government_building	The absence or presence of specialized government building for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Specialized Government Building	Description	Edit
1	(Prepalatial Crete)	2400 BCE 1900 BCE	present	None
2	(Rouran Khaganate)	300 CE 500 CE	unknown	None
3	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	500 CE 800 CE	present	None
4	(Rouran Khaganate)	501 CE 551 CE	present	None
5	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	800 CE 900 CE	absent	None
6	(Monte Alban IIIB and IV)	800 CE 900 CE	present	None
7	(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)	1867 CE 1918 CE	present	None
8	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
9	(Nawabs of Bengal)	Full Year Range of Nawabs of Bengal is assumed. [1717, 1757]	present	The first Nawab, Murshid Quli, constructed government buildings in Murshidabad. [Ray_Sreemani 2020] Across thousands of villages and towns there were rent collecting offices [McLane 0]
10	(Jenne-jeno I)	Full Year Range of Jenne-jeno I is assumed. [-250, 49]	unknown	None

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