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)

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

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#	Polity	Year(s)	General Postal Service	Description	Edit
21	(Tairona)	Full Year Range of Tairona is assumed. [1050, 1524]	unknown	None
22	(Ayyubid Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Ayyubid Sultanate is assumed. [1171, 1250]	absent	None
23	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	absent	None
24	(Egypt - Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty I is assumed. [-3100, -2900]	absent	None
25	(Egypt - Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Dynasty II is assumed. [-2900, -2687]	absent	None
26	(Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Inter-Occupation Period is assumed. [-404, -342]	absent	None
27	(Egypt - Middle Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Middle Kingdom is assumed. [-2016, -1700]	absent	None
28	(Naqada I)	Full Year Range of Naqada I is assumed. [-3800, -3550]	absent	None
29	(Naqada II)	Full Year Range of Naqada II is assumed. [-3550, -3300]	absent	None
30	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	absent	None

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