1-40 terms Chapter 8 Flashcards
A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state is known as…
Autonomous region
A country that contains more than one nation.
Multinational state
Occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.
Multistate nation
A group of people who have certain things in common
Nation
A nation of people who fulfill the qualification of a state form a…
Nation-state
A state that has a degree of, but not complete self rule, is a…
Semiautonomous region
The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs is known as…
Sovereignty
The largest political unit, the formal term for a country
State
A cultural group that has no independent political entity.
Stateless nation
Used these claims to form state-boundaries in Africa.
Berlin Conference
Tends to divide people, break states apart, or even prevent states from forming.
Centrifugal forces
Helps unify people within a country
Centripetal forces
A period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between Us, Soviet, and Russia
Cold war
A particular type of imperialism in which people move into and settle on the land of another country.
Colonialism
The undoing of colonization, in which indigenous people reclaim sovereignty over their territory.
Decolonization
The process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit is known as…
Devolution
Organized mass killing, in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.
Genocide
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.
Imperialism
A nation’s desire to create and maintain a sate of its own.
Nationalism
The right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence.
Self-determination
State dominated by another politically and economically.
Satellite states
Study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states
Geopolitics
A willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space they claim
Territoriality
Emerged
Neocolonialism
A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interactions
Choke points
Preceded the development of the cultural landscape
Antecedent boundary
Type of subsequent that takes into account already-existing cultural or physical landscapes
Consequent boundary
Divide people according to some cultural division
Cultural boundaries
A border that is drawn taking into account language, ethnicity, religion, or other cultural traits
Cultural consequent boundary
Meaning they are usually related to cultural phenomena
Ethnographic
Straight line or arc drawn by people that does not closely follow any physical feature.
Geometric boundary
Without territory connected to an ocean
Landlocked states
One that is heavily guarded and discourages crossing
Militarized boundary
Unguarded and people can cross it easily
Open boundary
Unlike geometric borders, a division that uses already existing natural features that divides a territory such as rivers, deserts, or mountains
Physical consequent boundaries
Natural barriers between areas such as oceans
Physical geographic boundaries
A boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but evidence of it still exists on the landscapes
Relic boundary
Created while the cultural landscape is evolving and is subject to change over time
Subsequent boundary
Drawn by outside powers and may have ignored existing cultural patterns
Superimposed boundary
