UNIT 4: Chapter Eight - 4.3, Pages 206-212

Question 1

Geopolitics

Answer 1

The study of the effects of geography on politics and relations among states.

Question 2

Territoriality

Answer 2

The willingness by a person or a group of people to defend space they claim

Question 3

Religious Conflict

Answer 3

A situation in which religious adherents are involved in a serious disagreement or argument with one religious group and another.

Question 4

Economic Self-Determination

Answer 4

Gaining economic independence. The capacity and space to determine the conditions of labor, production, acquisition, and distribution.

Question 5

Neocolonialism

Answer 5

A system where economic, political, or even cultural control was indirectly exerted over developing countries.

Question 6

Modern Globalization

Answer 6

How trade and technology have made the world into a more connected and interdependent place.

Question 7

Choke Point

Answer 7

A place of physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction.