1-40 terms Chapter 8

Question 1

A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state is known as…

Answer 1

Autonomous region

Question 2

A country that contains more than one nation.

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Multinational state

Question 3

Occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.

Answer 3

Multistate nation

Question 4

A group of people who have certain things in common

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Nation

Question 5

A nation of people who fulfill the qualification of a state form a…

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Nation-state

Question 6

A state that has a degree of, but not complete self rule, is a…

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Semiautonomous region

Question 7

The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs is known as…

Answer 7

Sovereignty

Question 8

The largest political unit, the formal term for a country

Answer 8

State

Question 9

A cultural group that has no independent political entity.

Answer 9

Stateless nation

Question 10

Used these claims to form state-boundaries in Africa.

Answer 10

Berlin Conference

Question 11

Tends to divide people, break states apart, or even prevent states from forming.

Answer 11

Centrifugal forces

Question 12

Helps unify people within a country

Answer 12

Centripetal forces

Question 13

A period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between Us, Soviet, and Russia

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Cold war

Question 14

A particular type of imperialism in which people move into and settle on the land of another country.

Answer 14

Colonialism

Question 15

The undoing of colonization, in which indigenous people reclaim sovereignty over their territory.

Answer 15

Decolonization

Question 16

The process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit is known as…

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Devolution

Question 17

Organized mass killing, in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.

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Genocide

Question 18

A broader concept that includes a variety of wars of influencing another country or group of people nu direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance.

Answer 18

Imperialism

Question 19

A nation’s desire to create and maintain a sate of its own.

Answer 19

Nationalism

Question 20

The right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence.

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Self-determination

Question 21

State dominated by another politically and economically.

Answer 21

Satellite states

Question 22

Study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states

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Geopolitics

Question 23

A willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space they claim

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Territoriality

Question 24

Emerged

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Neocolonialism

Question 25

A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interactions

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Choke points

Question 26

Preceded the development of the cultural landscape

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Antecedent boundary

Question 27

Type of subsequent that takes into account already-existing cultural or physical landscapes

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Consequent boundary

Question 28

Divide people according to some cultural division

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Cultural boundaries

Question 29

A border that is drawn taking into account language, ethnicity, religion, or other cultural traits

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Cultural consequent boundary

Question 30

Meaning they are usually related to cultural phenomena

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Ethnographic

Question 31

Straight line or arc drawn by people that does not closely follow any physical feature.

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Geometric boundary

Question 32

Without territory connected to an ocean

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Landlocked states

Question 33

One that is heavily guarded and discourages crossing

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Militarized boundary

Question 34

Unguarded and people can cross it easily

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Open boundary

Question 35

Unlike geometric borders, a division that uses already existing natural features that divides a territory such as rivers, deserts, or mountains

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Physical consequent boundaries

Question 36

Natural barriers between areas such as oceans

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Physical geographic boundaries

Question 37

A boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but evidence of it still exists on the landscapes

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Relic boundary

Question 38

Created while the cultural landscape is evolving and is subject to change over time

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Subsequent boundary

Question 39

Drawn by outside powers and may have ignored existing cultural patterns

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Superimposed boundary