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
31	(British Empire I)	Full Year Range of British Empire I is assumed. [1690, 1849]	present	None
32	(New Palace Crete)	Full Year Range of New Palace Crete is assumed. [-1700, -1450]	absent	None
33	(Neolithic Crete)	Full Year Range of Neolithic Crete is assumed. [-7000, -3000]	absent	None
34	(Postpalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Postpalatial Crete is assumed. [-1300, -1200]	absent	None
35	(Prepalatial Crete)	Full Year Range of Prepalatial Crete is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	absent	None
36	(Hawaii I)	Full Year Range of Hawaii I is assumed. [1000, 1200]	unknown	None
37	(Hawaii II)	Full Year Range of Hawaii II is assumed. [1200, 1580]	absent	None
38	(Hawaii III)	Full Year Range of Hawaii III is assumed. [1580, 1778]	unknown	None
39	(Iban - Pre-Brooke)	Full Year Range of Iban - Pre-Brooke is assumed. [1650, 1841]	absent	None
40	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None

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