| Feature | Qila | Artinaih | Glindesa | Triconya | Tepat | Swíra | Hamtum | Moqali |
| 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 |
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. |
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| Art |
highly abstract, irregular
shapes unreal |
symmetry on diagonal axes unreal |
unreal non-figurative geometric or fractal patterns |
hyperrealistic,
representational technical and illustrative |
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rich ornamentation on everyday objects | |
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| 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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