Chapter 8 Final Flashcards
State
An area organized into a political until and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. (Example: people can smoke weed in the state of Colorado)
Sovereignty
Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.
Nation
A group of people with a common political identity, culture, and history (like ethnicity)
Polar Regions
Many claims of land and water. (Example: several states claim portions of Antarctica)
Sovereign state
States that have sovereign-independent from control of its internal affairs by other states. They have permanent population, defined territory, and one government
Nation-states
-Ideal political boundaries
-cohesive (well-integrated unified) population with similar identities and political goals
-ethnicity and national boundaries rarely occur at the same time
(Example: Japan ethnic groups: 98.1%)
Multinational state
A state that contains more than 1 nation. (Example: Russia ethnic groups:Russian 77% 200 other ones. Canada also has a lot of ethnicity.)
Multi state nation
A group of people who share a common characteristic and live in multiple states. (Example: north and South Korea are both separate countries, but have close to the same nations)
Autonomous regions
- Has control over its own affairs and has freedom to make decisions independent or external oversight.
- area granted autonomy it is situated in a sizable distance from the rest of the nation or tif the population of the area consists primarily of minority communities.
Semiautonomous regions
An area of a country/state that has a degree of autonomy or has freedom from an external authority.
Stateless nation
A group of people with common culture occupying a particular territory that does not operate as an independent political unit with a defined, permanently populated territory and has no sovereign control over its internal or foreign affairs.
Self-determination
The concepts that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
Multiethnic state
A state that contains more than one ethnic group (Example: Afghanistan, Belgium, Bolivia, and Bosnia.)
Colony
A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
The 3 G’s
- “God” stands for the desire to spread and expand Christianity
- “Gold” meaning wealth and richness
- “glory” stands for greater power and a larger empire.
Antecedent
A boundary drawn before a large population was recent. (Example: Canada
Point Roberts 48th parallel Lake of the woods
United States)
Subsequent (ethnographic)
A boundary drawn to accommodate religious, ethnic, linguistic, or economic differences. (Example: Ireland)
Relic
A boundary that no longer exists, but evidence of it still exists on the landscape. (Example: Berlin Wall. Still some of it left, but not still a boundary.)
