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Unit 4 Vocab Flashcards

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Voting districts

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Local areas with boundaries that define who you can vote for and where you represent, if elected.

Places that affect voting.

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Unitary state

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An internal organization of a state that place is most power in the hands of central government officials.

Single/Unified

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Terrorism

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The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce A government into granting its demands.

Terrorizing people to get what they want.

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Territoriality

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In political Geography, a countries or more local community sense of property and attachment towards its territory, as expressed by its determination, to keep it inviable and strongly defended.

They are territorial

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Territorial seas

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The waters that are enclosed by the boundaries of a coastal state, and that are considered part of the territory of that state.

Waters considered part of their territory

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Supranational organization

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Multiple states coming together to form an organization aimed at achieving mutual goals.

Multiple nations forming an organization

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Superimposed boundary

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A boundary imposed by outside powers with no regard to local geography or cultures.

Boundary imposed on by outside.

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Subsequent boundary

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Borders, drawn in areas that have been settled by people, and where cultural landscape already exist, or are in the process of being established.

Subsequent- Coming after in time
The people- were already there or are going to be there.

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Stateless nation

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A nationality that is not represented by state.

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State

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A politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, economic systems, social systems, transportation systems, and international Recognition. Basically a country.

A country that is independent and has organized systems.

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Shatterbelts

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A region cop between stronger colliding, external cultural-political forces, Under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals.

Shatter-colliding cultures

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Sovereignty

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Ability of a state to govern its territory, free from control of its international affairs by other states.

Sovereign- power
Sovereignty-free from power

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Self determination

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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

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Relic boundary

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A boundary that is no longer use, but can still be seen in the cultural landscape.

Relic- old/from the past

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Redistricting

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The redrawing of congressional and other legislative district lines, following the census, to accommodate population, shifts and keep districts as equal as possible in population.

Re distributing-changing for population

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Neo-colonialism

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The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries.

Colonizing other countries into something new.

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Nationalism

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Loyalty and devotion to a particular nation
Favoritism

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Nation states

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A nation that also meets the requirements of the states.

NATION and a STATE

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Nation

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A politically organized body of people under a single government, has shared history.

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Multi-state nation

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A nation that crosses the border between multiple states.

Multi- many
State- state
Nation-borders

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Multi-national state

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State that contains two or more ethnic groups within traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nations.

Lots of ethnicities in a state

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Maritime boundary

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An international boundary that lives in the ocean. Like all boundaries, is vertical plane, extending from the sea floor to the upper Limit of the air space in the atmosphere above the water.

Maritime- bordering the sea

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Law of the sea

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Law, establishing states and responsibilities concerning the ownership, and use of the Earth seas and oceans and their resources.

Law of ownership of water sources

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Irredentism

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Attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states, inhabited by people of the same nation.

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International waters

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Waters outside of the territorial waters owned be states.

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Gerrymandering

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Redrawing of congressional boundaries by the political power in charge. These boundaries then strengthen that political parties ability to maintain power or enough votes for reelection.

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Geopolitics

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Study of government and its policies, as affected by physical geography.
Geo-politics- geography policy’s
Policies affected by geography

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Geometric boundary

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Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.
Geometry/geometric- straight lines
Boundaries of straight lines.

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Forward capital

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Capital city positioned in actually or potentially contested territory usually near an international border, It confirms the states determination to maintain its presence in the region in contention.

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Federal sate

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The organization of a state in which power is shared between the federal government and internal regional units.
Federal government

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Failed states

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States in which the central government has lost authority and resorts to deadly force to retain power.

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Exclusive economic zones

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An area of COASTAL WATER, and sea bed, within a certain distance of a countries, coastline, to which the country claims exclusive rights for fishing, drilling, and other economic activities.
Next to the water

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Ethonationalism

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The identification and loyalty a person may feel for his or her nation.
Identification of their nation

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Ethnic separatism

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Separating one ethnicity from another ethnicity.
Ethnic separating

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Ethnic cleansing

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Removing one ethnicity out of the state
Cleaning/ removing ethnicities

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Economies of scale

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Factors that cause a producers average cost per unit to fall as output rises.
More product=less expensive

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Devolution

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The transfer of powers and responsibilities from federal government to local powers.
De-evaluation-going to something smaller

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Democratization

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The process of creating a government elected by the people.
Democrat- govt elected by the people
Democrat-ization

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Demilitarized done

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Zone from which military forces or operations or installations are prohibited.
De-military-ized
Remove military forces

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Demarcated boundary

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Identified by physical objects, placed on the landscape, such as a sign, wall, or fence.
De-mark-aged
A mark on the landscape

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Delimited boundary

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A boundary that was drawn on a map by Cartographer
A person who draws maps

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Defined boundary

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A boundary that is created in agreement between two parties in a treaty or other legal document.
Defined- official/legal

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Decolonization

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The action of changing from colonial to independent status.

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Consequent boundary

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Type of subsequent boundary-Takes into account, the existing cultural distribution of the people living in the territory and redevelops boundary lines to move more closely align with the cultural boundaries.

Changes the boundaries to align with the people and their cultures

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Choke points

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A strategic, Narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water.

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Balkanization

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Process by which a state breaks down through complex among It’s ethnicities specific to the Breakdown of Yugoslavia

Balk-break

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Balance of power

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A condition of roughly equal strength between Opposing or alliances with countries.

Equal power between counties

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Autonomy

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Self-government, political control
Auto-government

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Antecedent boundary

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Borders that are established before there has been a major settlement by people in the territory.

Borders made before population increased.

Ancient boundary

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Annexation

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To incorporate (territory) Into an existing political unit, such as a country, state, or city. This often occurs when combining two or more specific boundaries to create a larger state.

Adding territory together politically

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Administered boundary

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A border that is actively managed, protected and administered.

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