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
41	(Canaan)	Full Year Range of Canaan is assumed. [-2000, -1175]	absent	None
42	(Yisrael)	Full Year Range of Yisrael is assumed. [-1030, -722]	absent	None
43	(Chalukyas of Badami)	Full Year Range of Chalukyas of Badami is assumed. [543, 753]	unknown	None
44	(Chalukyas of Kalyani)	Full Year Range of Chalukyas of Kalyani is assumed. [973, 1189]	unknown	None
45	(Deccan - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Deccan - Iron Age is assumed. [-1200, -300]	unknown	None
46	(Jin)	Full Year Range of Jin is assumed. [-780, -404]	present	None
47	(Northern Song)	Full Year Range of Northern Song is assumed. [960, 1127]	present	None
48	(Tang Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty I is assumed. [617, 763]	present	None
49	(Tang Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty II is assumed. [763, 907]	present	None
50	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None

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