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Services and Settlements - Rural/Urban Settlements and Urbanization

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clustered rural settlements   show
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show consists of a central open space surrounded by structures  
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Maasai people   show
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show circular settlements built by the Maasai people  
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show comprise buildings clustered along a road, river, or dike to facilitate communications  
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old clustered rural settlement pattern   show
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dispersed rural settlement   show
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enclosure movement   show
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show Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and Indus River Valley  
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show places to bury the dead, places for ceremonies and dwellings  
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early business services   show
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1st settlements   show
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show empire’s center for administration, commerce, culture, and all other services - the world’s most populous city 2,000 years ago and may have been the first city to reach a half million inhabitants  
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show gave residents charters of rights with which to establish independent cities in exchange for their military service  
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show the tallest and most elaborate structures  
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show the process by which the population of urban settlements grows  
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2 dimensions of urbanization   show
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show argued during the 1930s that an urban dweller follows a different way of life than does a rural dweller  
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show large size, high population density, socially heterogeneous people  
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percent urban of developed country   show
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percent urban of developing country   show
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show an urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people (Osaka, Moscow, Los Angeles, Paris, London, and Nagoya in developed countries)  
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metacity   show
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show 1st city to exceed 5 million, around 1900  
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show 1st city to exceed 10 million, around 1940  
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Tokyo   show
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show may become the world's largest city by 2030  
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