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Indus Valley |
1. Located in Northern India 1. Very rich roil that comes from predictable flooding pattern 2. Pretty harsh conditions everywhere around the river 3. Mohenjo-daro ruins: lower Indus=more civilization |
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Fertile Crescent |
1. Two river. Euphrates and Tigris |
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Yellow River (Huang River) |
1. River of Sorrows-super unpredictable2. Two types of rice development- for wet and for dry conditions3. The Subak: at Belimbing Rice Fields, Bali4. Irrigation system is tied to the water temple through tunnels5. Human manipulated because found in volcanic area |
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Nile River Valley |
1. 5000 BC start seeing cities around it 2. Black land- where all the fertile soil is laid (where everything grows) 3. Red land- everything else. Where they gather minerals 4. Egyptian innovations include the ax, plow, and hoe irrigation systems. This system requires a huge amount of labor, usually slaves 5. Growing plants (gardens become a source of pleasure to the higher class of Egyptians) 6. Aswan Dams Egypt: produces electricity/ manages flooding 7. More saltwater is coming in from the delta, in some cases making the soil infertile |
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Aztec, Mayan, Inca (Pre-Columbian) |
1. 1491-Pre-Columbian 2. Mayan/Aztec grew corn/maze 3. Machu Pichu, Andes of Peru (Inca) 4. Perfect for growing potato 5. Chileoe: place of origin of potatoes 6. Terrace Farming: done in Incan, Mayan |
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Tenochtitlan |
1. Tenochtitlan (Mexico City)-200,000 at the time, bigger than any European city. They created canals for farming |
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Xocomilco |
1. Xochimilco is characterized by the existence of a system of canals, which measure about a total of 170 km2.[18] These canals, and the small colorful boats that float on them among artificially created land called chinampas are internationally famous.[6][11] These canals are popular with Mexico City residents as well, especially on Sundays.[6] These canals are all of what is left of what used to be a vast lake and canal system that extended over most parts of the Valley of Mexico, restricting cities such as Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) and Xochimilco to small islands.[7][19][20] This system of waterways was the main transportation venue, especially for goods from the pre-Hispanic period until the 20th century. |
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Yosemite |
1. With an early bent for the land and its protection, he was a leader of the campaign to protect Niagara Falls and worked to preserve what is now Yosemite National Park. |
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Hetch Hetchy |
* Gifford Pinchot is a proponent of damming the valley, whereas Muir wants to preserve it. However, as a result of the 1906 SF fire (because they couldn’t find enough water to put the fire down), the government allowed for the damming of the valley. * Dam built in 1914 * All SF water supply comes from this dam. |
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Taj Mahal |
Agra India, 1632-53 * Mausolean- Built to house the remains of his dead wife * An equivalent of 800 million dollars* 8000 artisans |
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Catacombs of Paris |
1. Are underground ossuaries in Paris, France which hold the remains of about six million people |
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Pere Lachaise |
1804 * Napoleon Bonaparte: he stars to negotiate this type of agreement between the church and the state. He advocates that every citizen, regardless of religion or race, has the right to be buried * Napoleon has this place built in a farm outside of Paris. 110 acres * He has this idea that he would bury famous people out there * Becomes the first cemetery garden in the west* It becomes very influential * This idea of cemetery is brought to the US, an example is the one outside of Cambridge, MA. It becomes like a type of park where people would go to relax |
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Mt. Auburn |
1. Mount Auburn Cemetery was inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and was itself an inspiration to cemetery designers, most notably at Abney Park in London. 2. The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum 3. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery", derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." |
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Prospect Park |
1. Prospect Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after their completion of Manhattan's Central Park. 2. "Would become a favorite resort for all classes of our community, enabling thousands to enjoy pure air, with healthful exercise, at all seasons of the year..." He also believed that a public park would attract wealthy residents. |
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Emerald Necklace |
1. 445 hectare chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. It gets its name from the way the planned chain appears to hang from the "neck" of the Boston peninsula; to this day it is not fully constructed. |
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Delphi |
* What gives this a sense of place? * It has an extraordinary view, open space, placed in high (closer to the gods), closer to the heavens * Why is it that when you’re on top of the mountain you have a different feeling than compared to the feeling of being down in a cave? * This place exists before Greece (early hellenistic settlement) * The early gods in Greek mythology were females * The Roman civilization shows more masculine gods * Super oriented towards the landscape. It’s located in a place that has the best view * The city is adjusting itself to the nature that it finds * Sacred Way, Delphi * Rock of Sibyl, Delphi* Temple of the Athenians, Delphi* The temple of the Greeks wasn’t the people; it was a place to honor the gods. People worshipped from outside |
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Pantheon |
1. The Roman Pantheon is the most preserved and influential building of ancient Rome. It is a Roman temple dedicated to all the gods of pagan Rome |
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Teotihuacan |
Avenue of the Dead, Teotihuacan, Mexico 1. Not Aztec nor Mayan. It was pre-that 2. Several civilizations converged at this place 3. Flat landscape 4. The pyramids are like a mimicking of the landscape. (the mountains in the background) 5. Very Geometric. A lot of axis |
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Vatican City, Rome |
1. You can see the importance of the axis 2. Sistine Chapel, rebuilt 1477-80 1. During the Middle Ages Catholicism comes back to the city. The Vatican is built 2. Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel 3. It’s not only a place to worship the gods but to demonstrate/show the gods. 4. Because the printing press didn’t exist and many people didn’t read either, churches told the Bible through pictures/ art |
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Quba Mosque |
1. Medina, 622 AD 2. The mosque is a place of gathering. The inside is typically made of… residential areas, offices, ablution, facilities, shops, a library 3. It is the oldest mosque in the world4. It’s first stones were placed by prophet Muhammed |
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Mecca (Kaaba) |
* As the birthplace of Muhammad and the site of Muhammad's first revelation of the Quran (specifically, a cave 3 km (2 mi) from Mecca),[5][6] Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam[7] and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory for all able Muslims. Mecca is home to the Kaaba, by majority description Islam's holiest site, as well as being the direction of Muslim prayer |
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Trajan’s Market |
* Trajan’s Marhet, ca. 110 AD (Rome)* It had 150 shops and offices Thought to be the world's oldest shopping mall Constructed for people to gather and purchase goods and conduct business |
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Baths of Caracalla |
aths of Caracalla, 212-217 AD * This is 62 acres * Septum’s builds the people this awesome. Intended for the people who live there. The locals |
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Pompeii |
* Villas at Pompeii, 79 AD * Very prosperous agricultural town * Had many hot springs * Volcanic activity |
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Faneuil Hall |
* Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Boston 1970s * James Rouse, built the first indoor mall in 1972* It is a type of a mall that is themed * Is playing on the historicism of Boston |
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Palace of Versailles |
1. Louis XIV moved from Paris, until the royal family was forced to return to the capital in October 1789 after the beginning of the French Revolution. Versailles is therefore famous not only as a building, but as a symbol of the system of absolute monarchy of the Ancien Régime. |
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Cahokia Mounds, Illinois |
800-1350 AD * Artistic renderings * Common theme: circle, celestial connection. * Petrified wood1. Cahokia was the largest and the most influential urban settlement in the Mississippian culture which developed advanced societies across much of what is now the central and southeastern United States, beginning more than 1000 years before European contact. Cahokia's population at its peak in the 13th century, an estimated 40,000, would not be surpassed by any city in the United States until the late 18th century. Today, Cahokia Mounds is considered the largest and most complex archaeological site north of the great pre-Columbian cities in Mexico. |
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Avebury Henge |
1. Is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in southwest England. One of the best known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest stone circle in Europe. It is both a tourist attraction and a place of religious importance to contemporary Pagans. |
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Pilgrimages |
* Christian Pilgrimages of Europe * You send people all over the city to become educated * It would take people a really long time to complete them * You start to think about the places that you need to visit. What are the cathedral, buildings that I need to visit |
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Seaside, FL |
All about place, but also conformity --ideal vision, fairyland? Extremely expensive to live there--results in exclusivity Pretend diversity |
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Sacred Way |
The sacred way reaches up to the temple of Apollo and then the path leads up to the theatre and the stadium |
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Baths of Caracalla |
Built by Septimus Severus. Had its own aqueduct to supply water. The structure even had a library insidd |
