Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

General Postal Service

Talking about postal sytems, 'general postal service' refers to a postal service that not only serves the ruler's needs, but carries mail for private citizens. (See here)

Contributors:

Metadata:

Download MetaData

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
general_postal_service	The absence or presence of general postal service for a polity.

Actual Data:

Add More Facts Download All See One-Page Mode

#	Polity	Year(s)	General Postal Service	Description	Edit
11	(Sakha - Late)	Full Year Range of Sakha - Late is assumed. [1632, 1900]	present	None
12	(Latium - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Iron Age is assumed. [-1000, -580]	absent	None
13	(Ostrogothic Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Ostrogothic Kingdom is assumed. [489, 554]	present	None
14	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None
15	(Heian)	Full Year Range of Heian is assumed. [794, 1185]	absent	None
16	(Shuar - Ecuadorian)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed. [1831, 1931]	absent	None
17	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	absent	None
18	(Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age)	Full Year Range of Konya Plain - Early Bronze Age is assumed. [-3000, -2000]	absent	None
19	(Tocharians)	Full Year Range of Tocharians is assumed. [-129, 29]	unknown	None
20	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	absent	None

Page 2 (of 32)