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
51	(La Tene B2-C1)	Full Year Range of La Tene B2-C1 is assumed. [-325, -175]	unknown	None
52	(La Tene C2-D)	Full Year Range of La Tene C2-D is assumed. [-175, -27]	unknown	None
53	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Valois is assumed. [1328, 1450]	unknown	None
54	(Akan - Pre-Ashanti)	Full Year Range of Akan - Pre-Ashanti is assumed. [1501, 1701]	absent	None
55	(Archaic Crete)	Full Year Range of Archaic Crete is assumed. [-710, -500]	absent	None
56	(Classical Crete)	Full Year Range of Classical Crete is assumed. [-500, -323]	absent	None
57	(The Emirate of Crete)	Full Year Range of The Emirate of Crete is assumed. [824, 961]	absent	None
58	(Erligang)	Full Year Range of Erligang is assumed. [-1650, -1250]	absent	None
59	(Hmong - Early Chinese)	Full Year Range of Hmong - Early Chinese is assumed. [1895, 1941]	absent	None
60	(Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - New Kingdom Thutmosid Period is assumed. [-1550, -1293]	absent	None

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