AP Human Geo: Chapter 8 Flashcards
- Anocracy
A country that us bit fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a ix of the two types.
- Autocracy
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.
- Balance of Power
A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.
- Boundary
An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.
- City-State
A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.
- Colonialism
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
- Colony
A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.
- Compact State
A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.
- Democracy
A country in which citizens elect leader and can run for office.
- Elongated State
A state with a long, narrow shape.
- Federal State
An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.
- Fragmented State
A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.
- Frontier
A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.
- Gerrymandering
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
- Landlocked State
A state that does not have direct outlet to the sea.q
- Microstate
A state the encompasses a very small land area.
- Multiethnic State
A state that contains more than one ethnicity.
- Multination State
A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.
- Nation-State
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.
- Perforated State
A state that completely surround another one.
- Prorupted State
An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.
- Self-Determination
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
- Sovereignty
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
- State
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that control over its internal and foreign affairs.
- Terrorism
The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
- Unitary State
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government official.
