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
251
(Elam I)
Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed.
[-900, -744]
present
None
252
(Elam I)
Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed.
[-900, -744]
absent
None
253
(Elam II)
Full Year Range of Elam II is assumed.
[-743, -647]
absent
None
254
(Parthian Empire I)
Full Year Range of Parthian Empire I is assumed.
[-247, 40]
present
None
255
(Parthian Empire II)
Full Year Range of Parthian Empire II is assumed.
[41, 226]
present
None
256
(Safavid Empire)
Full Year Range of Safavid Empire is assumed.
[1501, 1722]
present
None
257
(Seleucids)
Full Year Range of Seleucids is assumed.
[-312, -63]
present
None
258
(Seljuk Sultanate)
Full Year Range of Seljuk Sultanate is assumed.
[1037, 1157]
present
None
259
(Elam - Early Sukkalmah)
Full Year Range of Elam - Early Sukkalmah is assumed.
[-1900, -1701]
present
None
260
(Susa II)
Full Year Range of Susa II is assumed.
[-3800, -3100]
present
None
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