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
191	(Jin)	Full Year Range of Jin is assumed. [-780, -404]	present	None
192	(Longshan)	Full Year Range of Longshan is assumed. [-3000, -1900]	absent	None
193	(Northern Wei)	Full Year Range of Northern Wei is assumed. [386, 534]	present	None
194	(Late Qing)	Full Year Range of Late Qing is assumed. [1796, 1912]	present	None
195	(Tang Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty I is assumed. [617, 763]	present	None
196	(Early Wei Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Early Wei Dynasty is assumed. [-445, -225]	present	None
197	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
198	(Western Zhou)	Full Year Range of Western Zhou is assumed. [-1122, -771]	present	None
199	(Chagatai Khanate)	Full Year Range of Chagatai Khanate is assumed. [1263, 1402]	present	None
200	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None

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