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3.2 Birth of the Spanish Kingdom Information technology 2.1 Theater District 147 Garnet Coleman Democratic 1990 Downtown Houston inner southeastern portions of Houston (mainly west of I-45) Eastern Montrose Midtown Third Ward. Beginning during the 4th millennium BC the population of Texas increased despite a changing climate and the extinction of giant mammals Many pictograms from this era drawn on the walls of caves or on rocks are visible in the state including at Hueco Tanks and Seminole Canyon, Texas self-perception While technological superiority and cultural factors played an important role in the victories of the conquistadors in the Americas their conquest was greatly facilitated by old world diseases: smallpox chicken pox diphtheria typhus influenza measles malaria and yellow fever the diseases were carried to distant tribes and villages This typical path of disease transmission moved much faster than the conquistadors so that as they advanced resistance weakened.[citation needed] Epidemic disease is commonly cited as the primary reason for the population collapse the American natives lacked immunity to these infections. Germany annexed the western and occupied the central part of Poland and the Soviet Union annexed its eastern part; small shares of Polish territory were transferred to Lithuania and Slovakia on 6 October Hitler made a public peace overture to the United Kingdom and France but said that the future of Poland was to be determined exclusively by Germany and the Soviet Union the proposal was rejected and Hitler ordered an immediate offensive against France which would be postponed until the spring of 1940 due to bad weather, Portuguese exploration 6.1 Scoreboard, Texas eventually adopted much of the Anglo-American legal system but some Spanish legal practices were retained including homestead exemption community property and adoption. Charles Allen Culberson settled in Gilmer Upshur County and Jefferson Marion County, Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people Hurricane Carla in 1961 Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Hurricane Alicia in 1983 Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001 and Claudette in 1979 among them, The primary network-affiliated television stations are KPRC-TV (NBC) KHOU (CBS) KTRK-TV (ABC) KRIV (Fox) KIAH (The CW) and KTXH (MyNetworkTV) KTRK-TV KRIV and KTXH operate as owned-and-operated stations of their networks. The JPMorgan Chase Tower is the tallest building in Texas and the tallest 5-sided building in the world. . See List of Highways in Harris County for more roadways in Harris County, US Company 3.9 Automobile ownership As of 2012 Vietnamese were the largest group of Asians in Harris County As of 1995 most Vietnamese Filipinos and Chinese stated that they were Republicans while most Indians and Pakistanis stated that they were Democrats in 2012 Indians and Pakistanis continue to identify as Democrats while Chinese Filipinos and Vietnamese were increasingly identifying as independents or Democrats.

Houston is a flat marshy area where an extensive drainage system has been built the adjoining prairie land drains into the city which is prone to flooding. Underpinning Houston's land surface are unconsolidated clays clay shales and poorly cemented sands up to several miles deep the region's geology developed from river deposits formed from the erosion of the Rocky Mountains These sediments consist of a series of sands and clays deposited on decaying organic marine matter that over time transformed into oil and natural gas Beneath the layers of sediment is a water-deposited layer of halite a rock salt the porous layers were compressed over time and forced upward As it pushed upward the salt dragged surrounding sediments into salt dome formations often trapping oil and gas that seeped from the surrounding porous sands the thick rich sometimes black surface soil is suitable for rice farming in suburban outskirts where the city continues to grow, Historical population Western view of the Downtown Houston skyline in 2010. The 2010 United States Census reported that Houston had a population of 2,100,263 residents in 2017 the census-estimated population rose to 2,312,717 and in 2018 to 2,325,502 an estimated 600,000 undocumented immigrants reside in the Houston area comprising nearly 9% of the city's metropolitan population. 10 Retail 16.7 Pre-1865 Houston Texas Business Directory JPMorgan Chase Tower (12) 36 Houston Heights World War II Memorial. . . Houston Texas Business Directory East Texas comprises 41 counties 38 of which collaborate in sub-regional Ark-Tex Council of Governments the East Texas Council of Governments the Deep East Texas Council of Governments and the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission, Police services Higher education Much of Houston's success as a petrochemical complex is due to its busy man-made ship channel the Port of Houston the port ranks first in the country in international commerce and is the sixth-largest port in the world Amid other U.S ports it is the busiest in foreign tonnage and second in overall tonnage Because of these economic trades many residents have moved to Houston from other U.S states as well as hundreds of countries worldwide.