Section: Social Complexity

Subsection: Bureaucracy characteristics

Specialized Government Building

Talking about bureaucracy characteristics, these buildings are where administrative officials are located, and must be distinct from the ruler's palace. they may be used for document storage, registration offices, minting money, etc. defense structures also are not coded here (see military). state-owned/operated workshop should also not be coded here. (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
specialized_government_building	The absence or presence of specialized government building for a polity.

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#	Polity	Year(s)	Specialized Government Building	Description	Edit
151	(Papal States - High Medieval Period)	Full Year Range of Papal States - High Medieval Period is assumed. [1198, 1309]	present	None
152	(Papal States - Renaissance Period)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Renaissance Period is assumed. [1378, 1527]	present	None
153	(Roman Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Roman Kingdom is assumed. [-716, -509]	present	None
154	(Asuka)	Full Year Range of Asuka is assumed. [538, 710]	present	None
155	(Heian)	Full Year Range of Heian is assumed. [794, 1185]	present	None
156	(Japan - Final Jomon)	Full Year Range of Japan - Final Jomon is assumed. [-1200, -300]	absent	None
157	(Papal States - Medieval Period I)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period I is assumed. [1527, 1648]	present	None
158	(Papal States - Medieval Period II)	Full Year Range of Papal States - Medieval Period II is assumed. [1648, 1809]	present	None
159	(Warring States Japan)	Full Year Range of Warring States Japan is assumed. [1467, 1568]	present	None
160	(Vakataka Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Vakataka Kingdom is assumed. [255, 550]	present	None

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