Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Transport infrastructure

Canal

Talking about transport infrastructure, canals refers to canals built and/or maintained by the polity (that is, code 'present' even if the polity did not build a canal, but devotes resources to maintaining it). (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
canal	The absence or presence of canal for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Canal	Description	Edit
131	(Kachi Plain - Pre-Urban Period)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Pre-Urban Period is assumed. [-3200, -2500]	unknown	None
132	(Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Proto-Historic Period is assumed. [-1300, -500]	present	None
133	(Kachi Plain - Urban Period I)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Urban Period I is assumed. [-2500, -2100]	unknown	None
134	(Kachi Plain - Urban Period II)	Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Urban Period II is assumed. [-2100, 1800]	unknown	None
135	(Sakha - Late)	Full Year Range of Sakha - Late is assumed. [1632, 1900]	absent	None
136	(Egypt - Kushite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Kushite Period is assumed. [-747, -656]	present	None
137	(Sarazm)	Full Year Range of Sarazm is assumed. [-3500, -2000]	unknown	None
138	(Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Chalcolithic is assumed. [-6000, -5500]	absent	None
139	(Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Late Chalcolithic is assumed. [-5500, -3000]	absent	None
140	(Egypt - Dynasty 0)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty 0 is assumed. [-3300, -3100]	absent	None

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