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
51	(Shuar - Ecuadorian)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed. [1831, 1931]	absent	None
52	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	present	None
53	(Egypt - Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty I is assumed. [-3100, -2900]	present	None
54	(Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period is assumed. [-404, -342]	present	None
55	(Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Mamluk Sultanate III is assumed. [1412, 1517]	present	None
56	(Naqada II)	Full Year Range of Naqada II is assumed. [-3550, -3300]	unknown	None
57	(Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period is assumed. [-1550, -1293]	present	None
58	(Ptolemaic Kingdom I)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom I is assumed. [-305, -217]	present	None
59	(Egypt - Period of the Regions)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Period of the Regions is assumed. [-2150, -2016]	present	None
60	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None

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