| Term | Definition |
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| Memphis | The Great Pyramid of Giza is located in... |
| Euphrates | The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built on the banks of the... |
| Pheidias | The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was carved by the great sculptor... |
| Asia Minor | The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus was found in... |
| The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus | A fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria. |
| The Colossus of Rhodes | A colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island. |
| The Lighthouse of Alexandria | A lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city. |
| cities | What serve as the centers for political, industrial, educational, economic, artistic, and medical power. |
| primate city | A countries leading city, disproportionately large, and is expressive of a national feel. |
| mercantile city | Areas of wealth, fronted with mansions, royal, religious, and private building, but contained central squares of commerce. |
| manufacturing city | Areas overrun by factories, insufficient housing, sanitation issues, and labor issues. |
| modern city | Transportation and modern roads that disperse populations into suburbs. |
| situation | A city's position relative to much traveled transport routes, productive farmlands, manufacturing complexes, other towns and cities. |
| situation | A city's...allows for rapid growth benefiting from commerce and trade. |
| site | The actual physical qualities of a place a city occupies. |
| site | ...dictates a city's ability to expand or defend. |
| central place theory | the theory created by Walter Christaller, the model shows how and where central places in the urban hierarchy would be spatial and functionally distributed. |
| concentric zone model | the model that has the central business district, then wholesale/light manufacturing, then the low-class residential, then medium, and then the high, and lastly the commutor zone. |
| Burgess | Who made the concentric zone model? |
| sector model | Model that had the industriallocation and low income housing located along transportation lines. |
| Hoyt | Who came up with the sector model? |
| Harris and Ullman | Who came up with the multiple nuclei theory? |
| greenbelts | European cities have a lot of... |
| CBD | Southeast Asian cities have no defined... |
| Lagos | WHat African city is emerging as a world mega-city. |
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