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
121	(Jenne-jeno II)	Full Year Range of Jenne-jeno II is assumed. [50, 399]	unknown	None
122	(Jenne-jeno III)	Full Year Range of Jenne-jeno III is assumed. [400, 899]	absent	None
123	(Jenne-jeno IV)	Full Year Range of Jenne-jeno IV is assumed. [900, 1300]	unknown	None
124	(Eastern Turk Khaganate)	Full Year Range of Eastern Turk Khaganate is assumed. [583, 630]	unknown	None
125	(Rouran Khaganate)	Full Year Range of Rouran Khaganate is assumed. [300, 555]	absent	None
126	(Second Turk Khaganate)	Full Year Range of Second Turk Khaganate is assumed. [682, 744]	unknown	None
127	(Chuuk - Early Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Early Truk is assumed. [1775, 1886]	absent	None
128	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
129	(Late Xiongnu)	Full Year Range of Late Xiongnu is assumed. [-60, 100]	unknown	None
130	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	absent	None

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