Boundaries Flashcards

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Physical boundaries coincided with

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Physical features of the natural landscape

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Two types of boundaries

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Physical and cultural

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Cultural boundaries coincide with the

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Distributions of cultural characteristics

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How to form the Best boundaries l

Least conflict

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All states agree

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Three types of physical elements serving s boundaries

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Deserts
Mountains
Water

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Desert boundaries

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Hard to cross

Sparsely inhabited

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Where are desert boundaries common

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Asia

Africa

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Example of desert boundary

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Sahara seperated Algeria Libya and Egypt

T from Mauritania Mali Niger chad Sudan

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Mountain boundaries

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Mountain boundaries difficult to cross
Permanent
Sparsely inhabited
Contact on either saide limited

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Example of mountain boundary

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Argentina and chile boundaries by Andes mountains- but they couldn’t decide on the crest and almost fought a war

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Water boundaries

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Rivers lakes oceans
Visible on mapsd aerial imagery
Good protection from attacks

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Why water boundaries a area good defense against attacking states

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Other states have to travel by. Ship and plane and secure a landing spot in the state

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12
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Where are weed boundaries common

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East Africa

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Example of water boundaries

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Boundary between Democratic republic of the Congo and Uganda is lake Albert

Boundaries of Kenya Tanzania and Uganda is lacked Victoria

Boundary Burundi, democratic republic of Congo, and Zambia is lake mwera

Boundary of Mozambique and Malawi is lake Malawi

Usa Nd Mexico seperated by rio grande

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River boundary problems

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River often changes course

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Ocean boundary problems

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Countries claim their boundary extends out to sea

For defense and fishing

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Territorial limit

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Late eighteenth century

Established that a counties territory extends 3 nautical miles out to sea

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Law of the sea

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Standardized the territorial limit for most countries at 12 nautical miles

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Two types of cultural boundaries

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Geometric and ethnic

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Geometric boundaries shape

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A straight line drawn on a map

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Ethnic boundary shape

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Coincide with differences in ethnicity, language, religion

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Boundary between Canada and USA

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Geometric

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Boundary between Chad and Libya

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Geometric

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Strip between chad and Libya

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Aozou strip

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Religious boundary

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Cultural boundary separating religion

Religion usually coincides with country boundaries but is rarely used to select a boundary line

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Best religios boundary

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South Asia- British partitioned India into 2 state based on religion

Muslims-> Pakistan
Hindus-> India

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Ireland and Northern Ireland boundary

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Religious boundary

Roman Catholic-> Republic of Ireland
Protestant-> Northern Ireland

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Language boundaries

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Cultural boundary

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Europe state boundaries

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Language boundaries

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Versailles conference

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Leaders of victorious countries got together to redraw Europe map and based it mostly off of language

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Problems of Versailles redistricting

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Czechs Slovaks Croats Macedonians Serbs Slovenes realize they have hard time living together

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Cyprus boundary is called

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Cyprus “green line” boundary

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What does greenline boundary separate

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Greeks and Turks on Cyprus

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North part of Cyprus ethnicity

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Turks

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South part of Cyprus ethnicity

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Greek

35
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Cyprus’ plans.

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In three years they will be reunified

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Frontiers definition

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Zone where no country exercises complete political control

A tangible geographic area where boundary is an imaginary line

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Frontier benefits rather than boundary line

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Frontiers are often kilometers wide and separates two countries with a. Sparsely inhabited region

A boundary brings states into direct contact increasing potential for violent face to face meetings

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Why have frontiers be replaced by boundaries?

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Modern communication allow countries to monitor and guard boundaries effectively

Countries agree to share resources of the former frontier and the sparsely inhabited area starts to be filled with nomads and agriculture…

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Example of frontier to boundary

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Saudi Arabia converted frontiers in Yemen and Oman to boundaries and agreed to share I resources in the former frontier