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
31	(Egypt - Period of the Regions)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Period of the Regions is assumed. [-2150, -2016]	absent	None
32	(Egypt - Late Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Late Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2350, -2150]	absent	None
33	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	absent	None
34	(Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Classic Old Kingdom is assumed. [-2650, -2350]	absent	None
35	(Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period is assumed. [-1720, -1567]	absent	None
36	(Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period is assumed. [-1069, -747]	absent	None
37	(Axum I)	Full Year Range of Axum I is assumed. [-149, 349]	unknown	None
38	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None
39	(Beaker Culture)	Full Year Range of Beaker Culture is assumed. [-3200, -2000]	unknown	None
40	(Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period is assumed. [-1550, -1293]	absent	None

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