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The Mesoamerican environment was extremely rugged with jungles, mountains, and the occasional dry plain. Tribes would settle in the areas of jungle which were less inhabited and had less slopes in the terrain. They cleared out small areas of trees and did primitive landscaping to flatten the land and allow space to build the famous step pyramids, most notably El Tepozteco, known for its glyphs and uncanny location.

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First method of conquest in 1519 with Hernan Cortes sailing to Yucatan and conquering tribes in the area. Converted members of the tribes to Catholicism and started the spread of the religion throughout Mesoamerica.

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The region began as Tribes and huge empires most notably the Aztecs.Then, in the Spanish explorations the culture had completely changed to the Spaniard’s culture of the time

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Their Religions started out as an Animism tribes until Spanish exploration reach the area and completely converted it to Christianity.

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Their Ancient religions were wiped out and were replaced with Christianity. Converted by conquerors from the east.

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-Mexico/Spanish/Catholicism

-Belize/English/Catholicism

-Honduras/Spanish/Catholicism

-El Salvador/Spanish/Catholicism

-Costa Rica/Spanish/Catholicism

-Panama/Spanish/Catholicism

-Guatemala/Spanish/Catholicism

-Nicaragua/Spanish /Catholicism

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In a Brazilian steakhouse, you want to have low lightning with vivid colors. If it's too bright, the colors will draw focus away from the more important colors in the restaurant. You also want to keep the customer's mind calm and the low light surroundings help with that. The colors that Southeast Asia's theme have allow for this setting. The flavors of Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica blend very well together, as they both involve some spice.

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Popular Color Schemes involve red and yellow in Mesoamerica. These colors are consistently seen throughout the region in nature, art, and architecture.

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Mesoamerica style

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Mesoamerican style ($75 each

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http://www.xuvn.com/foodofvietnam/vietnamese_kitchen_cooking_utens.htm

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http://www.marlamallett.com/lao.htm

Silk Brocades

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$10/ sq ft

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$12/sq ft

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Rugs and mats are very significant in culture and used through restaurants

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Similar to Philippine influences,

outdoor scenery is a major factor. Cost is the same if vinyl, but window pricings vary.

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Vinyl wallpapers are major factors for Philippines, although if it is not wallpapers, a major influence are outdoor scenery, reasoning for lavish copious windows. (63.41$- low) (113.84$- high)

http://www.homewyse.com/services/cost_to_install_wallpaper.html

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Window $5833 in Justin for average window installation

http://www.improvenet.com/r/costs-and-prices/window-installation-cost

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cost($50 per set)

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cost ($100 per set)

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http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/ID/restaurant-furniture-supplier.html

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Indonesia: http://www.alibaba.com/countrysearch/ID/restaurant-furniture-supplier.html

Outdoor-($52 per)

indoor-($80)

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http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/families-with-teens/resources-parents/bicultural-parenting/background/

https://paoc.org/missions/global-view/articles/4-14-focus-southeast-asia

http://www.britannica.com/topic/history-of-Southeast-Asia

http://asiasociety.org/introduction-southeast-asia

http://teacherweb.ftl.pinecrest.edu/snyderd/MWH/readings/6/3%20-%20Religion.pdf
http://www.jrank.org/history/pages/8355/What-Geography-Asia.html

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Nomadic or seminomadic groups were difficult to govern and construct a permanent government with a stable and organized bureaucracy, and to be able to tax efficiently. Although settled population did not guarantee strong government, since taxing and giving authority to remote islands or highlands were very difficult.

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Cultural interactions can be found throughout the family traditions, although some have varied differences in cultural practices, their basic fundamentals are the same. Families are the most important systems throughout the region. Families are a traditional importance, and children are major influences, in that they are depended upon for future care. Daughters are married away and husbands or fathers are the dominant figure in a traditional home. These cultural characteristics spread or influenced each other and spread.

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Cambodia, a Buddhist dominant region, is impacted by its culture through the tradition of extended families, and views of the families. Children, though are regarded with affection at a very young age, are guided at the age of 3 using discipline. Disobedience of children is the main cause for such a tradition, and although women play part in raising children, it is also the father’s job to assist in bathing, feeding, and other aspect of father’s jobs. Boys at a young age are taught to care for their younger siblings, especially the daughters, and there is an expectation of respect and care from children to parents at all times.

Vietnamese families, though is dominated by multiple universalizing religions, have a slight difference in family structure. In which they contain three or four generations of family, and where the daughters join their husband’s family once married.  Children are venerated, because the parent’s traditional belief is that the children will be the cause of wealth and will provide for the family in the future. Fathers are the heads of every house, and traditionally they have provided no physical care for children. They provide food, housing and education, but emotional and physical affections are not common.  Mothers are the first teachers in that they teach the difference between right and wrong. They also learn at a very oung age of what family life is, and fathers are the dealers of punishments when children commit wrong doings.

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Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism,  Islam, Confucianism, and Taoism’s, are all

major religions, but the four core universalizing religions, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism, has spread its influence all over the world, specifically Southeast Asia. Though there are more within Southeast Asia, the major influences of the universalizing religions are evident throughout its cultural landscape.  From merchants, using trade to influence trading areas using religion, or missionaries, traveling through land, influencing their religion to traveled land, their impact has been evident.  Christianity specifically, has traveled through continents, dominating lands, and spreading. Their impacts to others are through architectural influences, or teaching, or culture, very diverse but specific, such as churches, or mosques, or Buddhist temples.

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Basically, all of Southeast Asia is tropical, and similarities are found in plants, and animal life throughout its region. Trading became a norm, when discoveries of the world’s most popular spices became evident, and international trading developed because of region. Also, though the majority of the region was affected by monsoons, typhoons, and hurricanes, wind systems were developed that enabled them to trade in intervals or in pattern, and allowed it to become a major trading port between India and China. With the trading systems brings in merchants and missionaries influencing their traveling areas.  Though not all were affected by weather, those who lived in the main lands consisted of tribal groups who had distinctive styles in clothing or hairstyles, and separated from the north and west by a river, and from its neighboring regions by forest hills or mountain ranges.

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Southeast Asia was initially influenced by its neighboring countries in the north and west of its boundaries. Since Southeast Asia was already socially and culturally varied, it was easy for its neighboring countries to accommodate to its traditions. The people did not attempt to push the culture away, but instead adapted to its influences and actually enhance it. What they provided was systems such as writing, literature, state structures, and social hierarchy and religious ways.  The long rivers that start at the highlands that mainly separate China and northwest India from Southeast Asia, features lowland plains that are separated by mountains and forests, developed settled cultures which established the first basic system for modern or future states. Tribal groups that inhabited highlands are very distinct from other culture in their display of identity, such as clothing or hairstyles.

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The mainland of Southeast Asia contained very diverse universalizing religions, such as Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, that impacted its region in smaller tribal religion, economics, and politics. The former traditional tribal societies were converted by Christian missionaries, in Vietnam, Cambodia, Philippines, and Thailand. The economic focus was impacted by religion in the way that new agricultural systems emerged from

the universalizing religion and influencing these regions. The political life were a most definite impact in the reasons of the religions influence in the power of the government, converting the leader into a religion ad converting the whole country or region based on the power’s religion.

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A very cultural diverse area, and though the estimated number of languages of the world are estimated around six thousand, the language estimation of South East Asia is estimated to be about a thousand languages. Their ability to adapt to their environment allowed permanent settlement areas, and transforming their way of life from orang laut or boat people, and small wandering groups of the jungle, and fierce headhunters, to the way of life they continue to this day. On the fertile lands, and main lands of southeast Asian farmers continue to grow rice plants, while the coast’s way of life is more focused on fishing and trading and markets.

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Indonesia/Indonesian/ freedom of religion but recognizes (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism)

East Malaysia/ Chinese & Indian dialects/ Christianity

Singapore/ English, Malay, Tamil, Standard Mandarin/ Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity

Philippines/Tagalog/ Roman Catholic

East Timor/ Timor-Leste/ Catholic

Brunei/Malay/ Sunni Islam

Christmas Islands/ English/ Buddhism, Christianity, Islam

Cambodia/ Khmer/ Buddhism

Laos/ Thai/ Buddhism

Myanmar (Burma)/ Burmese/ Theravada Buddhism

Thailand/ Thai/ Buddhism

Vietnam/ Vietnamese/ Buddhism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Muslim, Caodaism
West Malaysia/ Malay/ Sunni Islam

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cost- $11 U.S dollars

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Pictures (Examples of SE Asian Restaurants)

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Pictures (Examples of SE Asian Restaurants)