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
11	(Beaker Culture)	Full Year Range of Beaker Culture is assumed. [-3200, -2000]	unknown	None
12	(Proto-French Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Proto-French Kingdom is assumed. [987, 1150]	unknown	None
13	(Carolingian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Carolingian Empire II is assumed. [840, 987]	unknown	None
14	(Hallstatt A-B1)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt A-B1 is assumed. [-1000, -900]	unknown	None
15	(Napoleonic France)	Full Year Range of Napoleonic France is assumed. [1816, 1870]	present	None
16	(Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period is assumed. [-1720, -1567]	present	None
17	(British Empire I)	Full Year Range of British Empire I is assumed. [1690, 1849]	present	None
18	(Plantagenet England)	Full Year Range of Plantagenet England is assumed. [1154, 1485]	absent	None
19	(La Tene C2-D)	Full Year Range of La Tene C2-D is assumed. [-175, -27]	unknown	None
20	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None

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