Chapter 9: Urban Geography
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| 48109226 | Urban morphology | the study of the physical form and structure of urban places | |
| 48109227 | City | conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics | |
| 48109228 | Urban | the entire built-up, nonrural area and tis population, including the most recently constructed suburban appendages (provides a better picture of the dimensions and population of such an area than the delimited municipality that forms its heart) | |
| 48109229 | Agricultural village | a relatively small, egalitarian village, where most of the population was involved in agriculture | |
| 48109230 | Agricultural surplus | one of two components, together with social stratification, that enable the formation of cities (agricultural production in excess of that which the producer needs for his or her own sustenance and that of his or her family and which is then sold for consumption by others) | |
| 48109231 | Social stratification | one of two components, together with agricultural surplus, which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth, power, production, and prestige | |
| 48109232 | Leadership class | group of decision-makers and organizers in early cities who controlled the resources, and often the lives, of others | |
| 48109233 | First urban revolution | the innovation of the city, which occurred independently in five separate hearths | |
| 48109234 | Mesopotamia | region of great cities located between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers; first urban hearth (Fertile Crescent, 3500 BCE) | |
| 48109235 | Nile River Valley | river in Egypt; second urban hearth (3200 BCE) | |
| 48109236 | Indus River Valley | river in India; third urban hearth (2200 BCE) | |
| 48109237 | Huang He and Wei | two rivers in present-day China; fourth urban hearth (1500 BCE) | |
| 48109238 | Mesoamerica | central American hearth; fifth urban hearth (200 BCE) | |
| 48109239 | Acropolis | (literally "high point of the city.") the upper fortified part of an ancient Greek city (usually devoted to religious purposes) | |
| 48109240 | Agora | in ancient Greece, public spaces where citizens debated, lectured, judged each other, planned military campaigns, socialized, and traded | |
| 48109241 | Site | the internal physical attributes of a place, including its absolute location, its spatial character and physical setting | |
| 48109242 | Forum | the focal point of ancient Roman life combining the functions of the ancient Greek acropolis and agora | |
| 48109243 | Situation | the external locational attributes of a place (its relative location or regional position with reference to other nonlocal places) |