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
41	(Great Ming)	Full Year Range of Great Ming is assumed. [1368, 1644]	present	None
42	(Northern Song)	Full Year Range of Northern Song is assumed. [960, 1127]	present	None
43	(Northern Wei)	Full Year Range of Northern Wei is assumed. [386, 534]	present	None
44	(Early Qing)	Full Year Range of Early Qing is assumed. [1644, 1796]	present	None
45	(Lombard Kingdom)	Full Year Range of Lombard Kingdom is assumed. [568, 774]	unknown	None
46	(Sui Dynasty)	Full Year Range of Sui Dynasty is assumed. [581, 618]	present	None
47	(Tang Dynasty I)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty I is assumed. [617, 763]	present	None
48	(Tang Dynasty II)	Full Year Range of Tang Dynasty II is assumed. [763, 907]	present	None
49	(Western Han Empire)	Full Year Range of Western Han Empire is assumed. [-202, 9]	present	None
50	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Valois is assumed. [1328, 1450]	present	None

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