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- 2. Authorship + Disclaimer This work is the property of Ar. Hilbert C. Mangonon. Always check the values given in this document against the original references. For questions or corrections, contact the author at arhcmangonon@gmail.com.
- 4. History A systematic, often chronological narrative of significant events as relating to a particular people, country, or period, often including an explanation of their causes.
- 5. Civilization An advance state of human society marked by a relatively high level of cultural, technical, and political development.
- 6. Society An enduring and cooperating large-scale community of people having common traditions, institutions, and identity, whose members have developed collective interests and beliefs through interaction with one another.
- 7. Culture The integrated pattern of human knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to the next.
- 8. Style A particular or distinctive form of artistic expression characteristic of a person, people, or period.
- 9. Expression The manner in which meaning, spirit, or character is symbolized or communicated in the execution of an artistic work.
- 11. Geographical Pinpoints the location of a particular country. It describes whether it is near the sea, an island, on the mountains, deserts and others.
- 12. Geological Describes the materials found in the locality. The character and composition of the earth and the contour of the ground. Materials like stones, trees, reeds, bamboo, clay for bricks, marble, metals, all influence the character of the buildings.
- 13. Climatic The prevailing weather in the country. If there is much sunshine or little rain, if there are winters with much snow, these affect the character like for example the roofing of a country with snow should be steep to ward off the snow while the windows in cold climates should be wide to permit light to enter and warm the rooms.
- 14. Religion This is the emotional temperament and spiritual tendencies of the people in a particular country. If they are pagans they build temples for numerous gods, if they are Christian they build churches with altars. Muslim build mosques.
- 15. Historical The background of the people as a whole. Were there wars in the past? If so, buildings would have been ruined and new structures built.
- 16. Social and Political How the people lived and governed. Whether they are hostile, friendly, ruled by a king under democratic rule.
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