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Ch. 8: Political Geography Flashcards

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A permanent population and independent from control of its internal affairs by other states

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State (or country)

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Independence from the central of its internal affairs by other states

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Sovereignity

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Was created to maintain peace after World War II

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UN (United Nations)

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The right to govern themselves

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Self-determination

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A state that contains more than one ethnicity (e.g. U.S.A.)

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Multi-ethnic state

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A state whose population is made up of two or more nation

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Multinational state

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Territory that is legally joined to a sovereign state and is not completely self-governing

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Colony

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An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory

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Boundary

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Cultural remnants of previous frontiers and boundaries (e.g. Berlin Wall)

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Relic/Old boundary

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Using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs

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Geometrical boundary

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A boundary based on geographical features of the Earth’s surface

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Physical boundary

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Drawn after existing settlement patterns already existed

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Subsequent boundary

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Drawn around a cultural group (e.g. Nunavut)

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Consequent boundary

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Boundaries that existed before the settlement of the land

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Antecedent boundary

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14
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Important narrow areas that connect two larger areas ( the Suez Canal)

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Choke Point

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15
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Lacks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by other states

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Landlocked states

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Country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office

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Democracy

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Country that is run according to the interests of the ruler

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Autocracy

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When a country takes back land that may have previously been owned by it (e.g. Russia and Ukraine)

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Irredentlism

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Division of the water surface of the planet info. areas determined by physical and human geography

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Maritime boundary

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Mixture of democracy and autonomy

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Anocracy

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Places most power in the hands of control government officials

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Unitary state

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Autocates strong power to units of local government within the country

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Federal state

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Redrawing voting districts to solidify power through the use of boundaries to ensure one party will not have the majority vote

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Gerrymandering

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A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances

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Balance of power

25
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To maintain bipolar balance of power in Europe

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NATO (North Alliance Treaty Organization)

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Calls upon member states to supply troops

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OSCE (Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe)

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Promotes social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states

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OAS (Organization of American States )

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Founded it to end colonialism in Africa

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AU (African Union)

29
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Seek economic and cultural cooperation

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The Commonwealth

30
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Purpose of the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea

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Access to resources

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Countries that are internally divided and have an unstable government of a result of unrest of cross-border conflicts (e.g. North and South Korea)

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Shatter belt

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Communities and groups of people

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Nation

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A state whose population is only a portion of a nation (e.g. Arabia)

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Part-Nation

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A nation that has no state or is divided into several states (e.g. Palestine)

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stateles nation

35
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Popular in Mesopotamia and Greece

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City-states

36
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Use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control other countries

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Neocolonialism

37
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Ended the colonial era in the 20th century (can be violent)

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Decolonialism

38
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European countries paid no attention to where national, language, cultural groups, or empire boundaries existed

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Scramble for Africa (Berlin Conference)

39
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Portion of the state of separated from the main part of the state by another country

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Exclave

40
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State surrounded by another state

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Enclave

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Ideology that claims to express o fthe will of the people which some enemy is supposedly oppressing

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Populism

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