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
21	(French Kingdom - Late Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Valois is assumed. [1450, 1589]	unknown	None
22	(British Empire II)	Full Year Range of British Empire II is assumed. [1850, 1968]	present	None
23	(Akan - Pre-Ashanti)	Full Year Range of Akan - Pre-Ashanti is assumed. [1501, 1701]	absent	None
24	(Ashanti Empire)	Full Year Range of Ashanti Empire is assumed. [1701, 1895]	absent	None
25	(Archaic Crete)	Full Year Range of Archaic Crete is assumed. [-710, -500]	absent	None
26	(Classical Crete)	Full Year Range of Classical Crete is assumed. [-500, -323]	absent	None
27	(The Emirate of Crete)	Full Year Range of The Emirate of Crete is assumed. [824, 961]	absent	None
28	(Final Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Final Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1200, -1000]	absent	None
29	(Hellenistic Crete)	Full Year Range of Hellenistic Crete is assumed. [-323, -69]	absent	None
30	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None

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