Unit 4 Flashcards
State
a group of people with common cultural characteristics
State
an area with defined boundaries that has sovereignty within its borders
Choke point
A narrow passge between two areas that connects parts of the world together
Frontier
A zone of territory where no state has governing authority
Autonomous region
has freedom from an external authority
Devolution
The movement of power from the central government to regional governments within the state or breakup of a large state (balkanization) into several independent ones
Shatterbelt
Lots of ethnic conflict where states are born and destroyed
Law of the sea (UNCLOS)
each coastal nation has territorial sovereignty over 12 miles of water off their coast and maintains exclusive economic rights over 200 miles of water off their coast.
Gerrymandering
the process wherein political officials redraw electoral districts to favor a certain political party, ethnic group, coalition, or social class.
Terrorism
the systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
Ethnic cleansing
when a people group commits mass expulsion or mass killing of a particular ethnic group whom they do not want to exist either in a particular region or in the world as a whole.
Ethnophobia
Fear of people of a particular ethnicity.
Xenophobia
Fear or dislike of foreigners significantly different from oneself.
Triangular slave trade
Trading crops and slaves and material over ocean between countries
Centripetal force
Pull together/connect/unify
