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CBD, central business district
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| central nucleaus of commercial land uses, with concentration of offices, government, retail, and cultural activities. |
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| an independent political unit comprimisins a city that controls a surrounding hinterland. |
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| early examples include the sumerian and greek places, and mediecal places like Florence, Genoa, and Venice in Italy; Bremen, Hamburg, and Lubeck in Germany. a contemporary example is the vatican. |
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| cities that were deliberately established or developed as admin or commercial centers by imperial powers |
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| period of several centuries of stagnation and decline in ecinomic and city life in western eurioe following the collapse of the romas empire. |
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a trend in birth rates and death rates from high to low levels-over time.
this suggests that improved diests, public health, and meds cause a steady decline in death rates. |
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| a region of earlt agricultural and early urbanization, fertile land from mesapotania in modern iraq to the lower nile valley in egypt |
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| cities that because of their location serve as links between one country or region and others. |
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| federation of city states around the north sea and batic coasts |
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| 5,500 years ago, in english midlands, in mid 1700s. long span of urban development, changes in social, cultural, political, technological processes. |
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| the initial phase of capitalism, as the feudal system desintagrated it was replaced, by an economy that was domintated by market exchange in which communitye came to specialize in te production of the goods and commodities that they could produce. |
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| land between tigris and euphrates rivers in the area of modern iraq, early evidence for urbanization |
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| urban growth that evolves in an unplanned manner as when homes are builty along preexisting widing pedestrian paths rether thatn in a predeterminded way, |
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| a city that is seen as the embodiment of surprising and destrubing changes in economic, social, and cultural life such as manchester england during the idustiral revol |
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| example of how long distance trade fueled urban expansion. Extensive system of cities along route that connected China with Europe. 500 BCE-1500 CE. |
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