Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Postal sytems

Postal Station

Talking about postal sytems, postal stations are specialized buildings exclusively devoted to the postal service. if there is a special building that has other functions than a postal station, we still code postal station as present. the intent is to capture additional infrastructure beyond having a corps of messengers. (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
postal_station	The absence or presence of postal station for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Postal Station	Description	Edit
1	(Spanish Empire II)	1716 CE 1814 CE	present	None
2	(Austria - Habsburg Dynasty II)	1867 CE 1918 CE	present	None
3	(Soviet Union)	1923 CE 1991 CE	present	None
4	(Northern Song)	Full Year Range of Northern Song is assumed. [960, 1127]	present	None
5	(Majapahit Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Majapahit Kingdom is assumed. [1292, 1518]	unknown	None
6	(Andronovo)	Full Year Range of Andronovo is assumed. [-1800, -1200]	unknown	None
7	(Iban - Pre-Brooke)	Full Year Range of Iban - Pre-Brooke is assumed. [1650, 1841]	absent	None
8	(Early Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Early Roman Republic is assumed. [-509, -264]	absent	None
9	(Hawaii I)	Full Year Range of Hawaii I is assumed. [1000, 1200]	unknown	None
10	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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