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
61	(Yangshao)	Full Year Range of Yangshao is assumed. [-5000, -3000]	unknown	None
62	(Great Yuan)	Full Year Range of Great Yuan is assumed. [1271, 1368]	present	None
63	(Badarian)	Full Year Range of Badarian is assumed. [-4400, -3800]	absent	None
64	(French Kingdom - Early Valois)	Full Year Range of French Kingdom - Early Valois is assumed. [1328, 1450]	present	None
65	(Monte Alban II)	Full Year Range of Monte Alban II is assumed. [-100, 200]	present	None
66	(Ptolemaic Kingdom II)	Full Year Range of Ptolemaic Kingdom II is assumed. [-217, -30]	present	None
67	(Shuar - Ecuadorian)	Full Year Range of Shuar - Ecuadorian is assumed. [1831, 1931]	absent	None
68	(Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Hyksos Period is assumed. [-1720, -1567]	present	None
69	(Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Thebes-Libyan Period is assumed. [-1069, -747]	present	None
70	(Egypt - Saite Period)	Full Year Range of Egypt - Saite Period is assumed. [-664, -525]	present	None

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