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AMSCO Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards

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Sovereignty

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the power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs

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State

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the largest political unit, the formal term for a country
Four criteria
-defined boundary
-contains a permanent pop.
-maintains sovereignty
-recognized by other states

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Nation

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a group of people who have certain things in common
-common cultural heritage
-set of beliefs that unify them
-traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland
-a desire to establish their own state or express self-rule

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Nation-state

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a nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state
Ex. japan, France, Egypt

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Multinational state

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a country that contains more than one nation
Ex. US, Canada

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Autonomous region

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a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state
Ex. Aland

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Semiautonomous region

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a state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule

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Stateless nation

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a cultural group that has no independent political entity
Ex. Kurds

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Multistate nation

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

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Nationalism

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the strong feeling of patriotism and loyalty one feels toward one’s country promotes a sense of belonging, been if a country’s population is an ethnically diverse one

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Self-determination

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the right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence

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Decolonization

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

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Satellite states

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a state dominated by another politically and economically

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Devolution

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

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Territoriality

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a willingness by a person or a group to defend a space they claim

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Neocolonialism

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When economic, political, or even cultural control is exerted over developing countries

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Chokepoint

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a place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction

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Physical geographic boundaries

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natural barriers between areas such as oceans, deserts, and mountains

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Cultural boundaries

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divide people according to some cultural division, such as language, religion, or ethnicity

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Antecedent boundary

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borders that are established before there has been major settlement by people in an area
Ex. Andes Mountain

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Subsequent boundary

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borders that have been drawn in areas that have been settled by people, typically due to changes that have occurred over time
Ex. boundaries in Europe

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Superimposed boundary

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borders that are drawn over existing and accepted borders by an outside force.
Ex. Berlin Conference

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Consequent boundary

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Type of subsequent boundary - takes into account the existing cultural distribution of the people living in the territory and
redevelops boundary lines to more closely align with cultural boundaries.
Ex. Nunavut in Canada

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Geometric boundary

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Borders are established on straight lines of latitude and longitude instead of physical or cultural boundaries.
Ex. 49th parallel

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Relic boundary

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border that no longer exists, but has left some imprint on the local cultural or environmental geography.
Ex. Berlin Wall

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Open boundary

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unguarded and people can cross it easily, with little or no political intervention

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Militarized boundary

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one that is heavily guarded and discourages crossing

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Defined boundary

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established by a legal document, such as a treaty, that divides one entity from another

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Delimited boundary

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drawn on a map by a cartographer to show the limits of a space

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Demarcated boundary

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one identified by physical objects placed on the landscape

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Administered boundary

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Legal management of the border
through laws, immigration regulation, documentation, and prosecution.

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Definitional boundary dispute

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when two or more parties disagree over how to interpret the legal documents or maps that identify the boundary

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Locational (territorial) boundary dispute

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boundary disputes that center on where a boundary should be, how it is delimited, or demarcated

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Irredentism

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a type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claim to the land.

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Operational (functional) boundary dispute

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centers not on where a boundary is but how it functions

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Allocational (resource) boundary dispute

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when a boundary separates natural resources that may be used by both countries

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Controlled boundary

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boundaries that have checkpoints where a passport or visa is required to enter the country

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Exclaves

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territories that are part of a state, yet geographically separated from the main stage by one or more countries

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Political enclaves

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are states, territories or parts of a state or territory that are completely surrounded by the territory of another state
Ex. Lesotho, Vatican City, San Marino

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Shatterbelt

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a place located between two very different and contentious regions

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Territorial Sea

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area that extends up to 12 nautical miles of sovereignty where commercial vessels may pass, but noncommercial vessels may be challenged

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Contiguous Zone

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costal states have limited sovereignty for up to 24 nautical miles where they can enforce laws on customs, immigration, and sanitation

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Exclusive economic zone (EEZ)

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Coastal states can explore, extract minerals and manage natural resources up to 200 nautical miles

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High Seas

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water beyond any country’s EEZ that is open to all states

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Internal boundaries

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used at the subnational scale to divide countries into smaller units

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Voting districts

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internal boundaries that divide a country’s electorate into subnational regions

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Census

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a count of the population, every 10 years, to ensure the national congressional districts have approximately the same number of people

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Reapportionment

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changing the number of representatives granted to each state so it reflects the state’s population

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Redistricting

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when state legislatures or state committees then redraw district boundaries so that each district contains roughly the same number of people

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Gerrymandering

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the drawing of boundaries for political districts by the party in power to protect or increase its power

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Cracking

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dispersing a group into several districts to prevent a majority

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Packing

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combing like-minded voters into one district to prevent them from affecting elections in other districts

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Stacking

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diluting a minority-populated district with majority populations

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Hijacking

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redrawing two districts in order to force two elected representatives of the same party to run against each other

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Kidnapping

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moving an area where an elected representative has support to an area where he or she does not have support

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Federal state

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unites separates political entities into an overarching system that allows each entity to maintain some degree of sovereignty

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Unitary State

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most or all of the governing power is held by the national government

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Annexation

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the process of legal adding territory to a city

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Ethnic Separatism

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the advocacy of full political separating from the larger group along cultural, ethnic, tribal, or government lines

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Ethnic cleansing

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a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent or terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or regions group from certain geographic areas

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Terrorism

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organized violence aimed at government and civilian targets to create fear for the advancement of political goals. Most commonly used by NGOs (non-governmental organizations)

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Subnationalism

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described people who have a primary allegiance to a traditional group or ethnicity

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Balkanization

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the fragmentation of a state or region into smaller, often hostile, units along ethnolinguistic lines

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Globalization

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the integration of markets, states, communication, and trade on a worldwide scale

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Supranationalism

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the practice of multiple countries forming an organization for the benefit of all members

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Transnational corporations

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companies that conduct business on a global scale, have dramatically weekend state sovereignty.
Ex. Telsa, Apple, McDonalds

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Democratization

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the transition from autocratic to more representative forms of politics
Simple:
the transition from other forms of government to a more democratic one

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Time-space compression

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the social and psychological effects of faster movement of info over space in shorter period of time

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Regionalism

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when loyalty to a district portion of a country is more important than loyalty to the entire country

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Ethnonationalism

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a type of nationalism wherein the nation and nationality are defined in terms of ethnicity

AP Human Geography (5 decks)

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