Section: Social Complexity
Subsection: Postal sytems

Courier

Full-time professional couriers.   (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]
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Variable Definition
courier The absence or presence of courier for a polity.

# Polity Year(s) Courier Description   Edit
1
(Spanish Empire II)
1716 CE 1814 CE
present
None
2
(Soviet Union)
1923 CE 1991 CE
present
None
3
(Greco-Bactrian Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Greco-Bactrian Kingdom is assumed.
[-256, -125]
unknown
None
4
(Cahokia - Late Woodland III)
Full Year Range of Cahokia - Late Woodland III is assumed.
[600, 750]
absent
None
5
(Cahokia - Late Woodland I)
Full Year Range of Cahokia - Late Woodland I is assumed.
[300, 450]
absent
None
6
(Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I)
Full Year Range of Cahokia - Emergent Mississippian I is assumed.
[750, 900]
absent
None
7
(Kidarite Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Kidarite Kingdom is assumed.
[388, 477]
unknown
None
8
(Sogdiana - City-States Period)
Full Year Range of Sogdiana - City-States Period is assumed.
[604, 711]
unknown
None
9
(Kushan Empire)
Full Year Range of Kushan Empire is assumed.
[35, 319]
present
None
10
(Hephthalites)
Full Year Range of Hephthalites is assumed.
[408, 561]
present
None
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