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
181	(Timurid Empire)	Full Year Range of Timurid Empire is assumed. [1370, 1526]	present	None
182	(Kushan Empire)	Full Year Range of Kushan Empire is assumed. [35, 319]	present	None
183	(Eastern Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Eastern Han Empire is assumed. [25, 220]	present	None
184	(Western Jin)	Full Year Range of Western Jin is assumed. [265, 317]	present	None
185	(Hmong - Early Chinese)	Full Year Range of Hmong - Early Chinese is assumed. [1895, 1941]	absent	None
186	(Longshan)	Full Year Range of Longshan is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	present	None
187	(Great Ming)	Full Year Range of Great Ming is assumed. [1368, 1644]	present	None
188	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
189	(Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Late Qing is assumed. [1796, 1912]	present	None
190	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None

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