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
241	(Roman Empire - Principate)	Full Year Range of Roman Empire - Principate is assumed. [-31, 284]	present	None
242	(Roman Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Roman Kingdom is assumed. [-716, -509]	absent	None
243	(Republic of Venice III)	Full Year Range of Republic of Venice III is assumed. [1204, 1563]	present	None
244	(Nara Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Nara Kingdom is assumed. [710, 794]	present	None
245	(Classical Angkor)	Full Year Range of Classical Angkor is assumed. [1100, 1220]	present	None
246	(Early Angkor)	Full Year Range of Early Angkor is assumed. [802, 1100]	absent	None
247	(Late Angkor)	Full Year Range of Late Angkor is assumed. [1220, 1432]	absent	None
248	(Khmer Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Khmer Kingdom is assumed. [1432, 1594]	absent	None
249	(Funan I)	Full Year Range of Funan I is assumed. [225, 540]	unknown	None
250	(Funan II)	Full Year Range of Funan II is assumed. [540, 640]	unknown	None

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