Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Transport infrastructure

Road

Talking about transport infrastructure, roads refers to deliberately constructed roads that connect settlements or other sites. it excludes streets/accessways within settlements and paths between settlements that develop through repeated use. (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
road	The absence or presence of road for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Road	Description	Edit
81	(Neo-Assyrian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Assyrian Empire is assumed. [-911, -612]	present	None
82	(Neo-Babylonian Empire)	Full Year Range of Neo-Babylonian Empire is assumed. [-626, -539]	present	None
83	(Buyid Confederation)	Full Year Range of Buyid Confederation is assumed. [932, 1062]	present	None
84	(Ilkhanate)	Full Year Range of Ilkhanate is assumed. [1256, 1339]	present	None
85	(Elam - Igihalkid Period)	Full Year Range of Elam - Igihalkid Period is assumed. [-1399, -1200]	present	None
86	(Elam I)	Full Year Range of Elam I is assumed. [-900, -744]	present	None
87	(Pre-Ceramic Period)	Full Year Range of Pre-Ceramic Period is assumed. [-7800, -7200]	absent	None
88	(Seljuk Sultanate)	Full Year Range of Seljuk Sultanate is assumed. [1037, 1157]	present	None
89	(Icelandic Commonwealth)	Full Year Range of Icelandic Commonwealth is assumed. [930, 1262]	absent	None
90	(Early Wei Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Early Wei Dynasty is assumed. [-445, -225]	present	None

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