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
271
(Warring States Japan)
Full Year Range of Warring States Japan is assumed.
[1467, 1568]
present
None
272
(Tokugawa Shogunate)
Full Year Range of Tokugawa Shogunate is assumed.
[1603, 1868]
present
None
273
(Classical Angkor)
Full Year Range of Classical Angkor is assumed.
[1100, 1220]
present
None
274
(Early Angkor)
Full Year Range of Early Angkor is assumed.
[802, 1100]
present
None
275
(Late Angkor)
Full Year Range of Late Angkor is assumed.
[1220, 1432]
present
None
276
(Kachi Plain - Aceramic Neolithic)
Full Year Range of Kachi Plain - Aceramic Neolithic is assumed.
[-7500, -5500]
absent
None
277
(Khmer Kingdom)
Full Year Range of Khmer Kingdom is assumed.
[1432, 1594]
present
None
278
(Chenla)
Full Year Range of Chenla is assumed.
[550, 825]
unknown
None
279
(Funan II)
Full Year Range of Funan II is assumed.
[540, 640]
unknown
None
280
(Phoenician Empire)
Full Year Range of Phoenician Empire is assumed.
[-1200, -332]
unknown
None
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