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Architecture
‘Branching’ city growth.
Irregular lot and district shape. Indirect paths.
Asymmetrical buildings. Walls and floors of oddly-shaped stones. Naturalistic gardening and landscaping


Large open spaces. Radially arranged temples and cities. Domes everywhere.
Grid-like city plans with square lots, houses, and structural elements. Emphasis on size, especially breadth.
Monumental public spaces. Utilitarian gardening for food, or boring lawns.
Small, temporary, mobile structures
Mostly private dwellings
small size
multipurpose rooms and furniture
removable panels
modular design
height over width
sharp delineation of public and private spaces
Everything made out of stone and covered with gold and silver. Huge, tacky idols.
Art

highly abstract, irregular shapes
unreal

symmetry on diagonal axes
unreal

unreal
non-figurative geometric or fractal patterns
hyperrealistic, representational
technical and illustrative
rich ornamentation on everyday objects rich ornamentation on everyday objects
Climate
North: Oceanic
South: Mediterranean
Coast: Oceanic
Inland: Humid continental
Coast: Oceanic
Inland: Humid continental
West: Desert, steppe
East: Humid subtropical
Northeast: Oceanic
West: Mediterranean
East: Humid subtropical
Southwest: Desert
Northern, Eastern margins: steppe
Steppe and Humid Continental
North: Humid continental
South: Humid subtropical
Inland: Highland
Highland (variable) in tropical region
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Language
Animacy hierarchy, with complex systems of honorifics and deictics. Many dyadic terms.

VSO and agglutinative. Relics of an active-stative verbal system.
SOV, with infixation and ablaut as chief derivational processes.
SVO, analytical.
Polysynthetic with both subject and object agreement on the verb.
SOV, mildly agglutinative. Obligatory possessive markers.
SOV, ergative.
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