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
111	(Papal States - Medieval Period I)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period I is assumed. [1527, 1648]	present	None
112	(Middle Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Middle Roman Republic is assumed. [-264, -133]	absent	None
113	(Asuka)	Full Year Range of Asuka is assumed. [538, 710]	present	None
114	(Kamakura Shogunate)	Full Year Range of Kamakura Shogunate is assumed. [1185, 1333]	present	None
115	(Tokugawa Shogunate)	Full Year Range of Tokugawa Shogunate is assumed. [1603, 1868]	present	None
116	(Kara-Khanids)	Full Year Range of Kara-Khanids is assumed. [950, 1212]	present	None
117	(Chenla)	Full Year Range of Chenla is assumed. [550, 825]	unknown	None
118	(Phoenician Empire)	Full Year Range of Phoenician Empire is assumed. [-1200, -332]	unknown	None
119	(Saadi Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Saadi Sultanate is assumed. [1554, 1659]	unknown	None
120	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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