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
191	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
192	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	present	None
193	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	unknown	None
194	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
195	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	unknown	None
196	(Egypt - Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty II is assumed. [-2900, -2687]	present	None
197	(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate I)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate I is assumed. [1260, 1348]	present	None
198	(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate II is assumed. [1348, 1412]	present	None
199	(Naqada I)	Full Year Range of Naqada I is assumed. [-3800, -3550]	absent	None
200	(Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Ramesside Period is assumed. [-1293, -1070]	present	None

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