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
231	(Ilkhanate)	Full Year Range of Ilkhanate is assumed. [1256, 1339]	present	None
232	(Parthian Empire II)	Full Year Range of Parthian Empire II is assumed. [41, 226]	present	None
233	(Safavid Empire)	Full Year Range of Safavid Empire is assumed. [1501, 1722]	absent	None
234	(Sasanid Empire I)	Full Year Range of Sasanid Empire I is assumed. [205, 487]	present	None
235	(Roman Empire - Dominate)	Full Year Range of Roman Empire - Dominate is assumed. [285, 394]	present	None
236	(Sasanid Empire II)	Full Year Range of Sasanid Empire II is assumed. [488, 642]	present	None
237	(Seljuk Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Seljuk Sultanate is assumed. [1037, 1157]	present	None
238	(Susa II)	Full Year Range of Susa II is assumed. [-3800, -3100]	present	None
239	(Latium - Iron Age)	Full Year Range of Latium - Iron Age is assumed. [-1000, -580]	unknown	None
240	(Late Roman Republic)	Full Year Range of Late Roman Republic is assumed. [-133, -31]	absent	None

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