Ch8 Political Geography Vocab

Question 1

Political geography

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The study of the political organization of the world

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State

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Politically organized territory with permanent population, defined territory and a government

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Sovereignty

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Having a recognize right to control a territory politically and militarily

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Mercantilism

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Promotion of commercialism and trade

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Territory

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A fixed element of political identification

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Nation

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Identified by its own membership as the people within a territory sharing cultural identity

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Nation-state

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Politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same state

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Multinational state

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States with more than one nation inside its borders

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Multistate nation

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Nations that stretches across borders and states

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Stateless nation

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Nation that has no state

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Colony

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A territory tied to a state rather than being completely independent

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Capitalism

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World economy, corporations, individuals and state produce good and services that are exchangeable

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Centripetal force

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Forces that unifies its regions and people

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Centrifugal forces

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Forces that work to divide its regions and people

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Unitary government

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Centralized state whose administrative framework is designed to ensure the central government authority over all of the states

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Federal government

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Accommodates regional interest by vesting primary power in province states and the regional units over all matters except those given to the central government

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Theocracy

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Government based on religion

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Devolution

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Movement of power from the central government to the regional governments within the state

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Irredentism

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When a minority ethnic group desires to break away from a multi ethnic state to form it’s own national state or align itself with a culturally similar state

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Balkanization

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When centrifugal forces Break apart a state into smaller pieces

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Self-determination

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Power of a people to establish their own their own government the way that they see fit

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Reapportionment

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Redistribution of representation in legislative body especially periodic reallotments of US congressional seats according to changes in the census figures require by the constitution

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Redistricting

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According to population shift so that each district has about the same number of people

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Gerrymandering

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The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power

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Boundary

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Vertical plane cutting through rock slow and airspace above dividing

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Antecedent boundary

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Existed before human settlements of an area

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Consequent boundary

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Developed Along with the development of the cultural landscape

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Superimposed boundary

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Ignores the existing cultural organization on the landscape

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Relic boundary

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Boundary that no longer exist

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Supranational organization

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Venture involving three or more nationstates involving formal political economical and cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives