Topic 4.3 Political Power and Territoriality

Question 1

Choke Point

Answer 1

a narrow passageway, often strategic, between 2 larger bodies of water

Example: Panama Canal, Strait of Hormuz, Dardanelles Strait

Question 2

Neocolonialism

Answer 2

indirect control over developing countries through economic or political pressure

Example: embargoes placed on countries who violate human rights

Question 3

Shatterbelt

Answer 3

region that suffers from instability due to its position between two very different regions or ideologies

Example: Nagorno-Karabakh, Kashmir

Question 4

Territoriality

Answer 4

connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land

Examples: Palestinians and Jews in Israel