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
41	(French Kingdom - Late Capetian)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Capetian is assumed. [1150, 1328]	unknown	None
42	(Carolingian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Carolingian Empire II is assumed. [840, 987]	absent	None
43	(Hallstatt A-B1)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt A-B1 is assumed. [-1000, -900]	unknown	None
44	(Hallstatt B2-3)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt B2-3 is assumed. [-900, -700]	unknown	None
45	(Hallstatt C)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt C is assumed. [-700, -600]	unknown	None
46	(Hallstatt D)	Full Year Range of Hallstatt D is assumed. [-600, -475]	unknown	None
47	(Early Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Early Merovingian is assumed. [481, 543]	unknown	None
48	(Proto-Carolingian)	Full Year Range of Proto-Carolingian is assumed. [687, 751]	unknown	None
49	(Middle Merovingian)	Full Year Range of Middle Merovingian is assumed. [543, 687]	unknown	None
50	(Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period is assumed. [-1550, -1293]	absent	None

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