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
211	(Spanish Empire I)	Full Year Range of Spanish Empire I is assumed. [1516, 1715]	present	None
212	(Chuuk - Late Truk)	Full Year Range of Chuuk - Late Truk is assumed. [1886, 1948]	absent	None
213	(French Kingdom - Early Bourbon)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Bourbon is assumed. [1589, 1660]	present	None
214	(French Kingdom - Late Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Late Valois is assumed. [1450, 1589]	present	None
215	(British Empire II)	Full Year Range of British Empire II is assumed. [1850, 1968]	present	None
216	(Ashanti Empire)	Full Year Range of Ashanti Empire is assumed. [1701, 1895]	absent	None
217	(Hawaii III)	Full Year Range of Hawaii III is assumed. [1580, 1778]	absent	None
218	(Delhi Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Delhi Sultanate is assumed. [1206, 1526]	present	None
219	(Early A'chik)	Full Year Range of Early A'chik is assumed. [1775, 1867]	absent	None
220	(Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama)	Full Year Range of Japan - Azuchi-Momoyama is assumed. [1568, 1603]	present	None

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