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AP Human Ch. 7 Vocab
Ethnicities - AP Human Geography, Chapter 7, Rubenstein
Term | Definition |
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Apartheid | Laws (no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |
Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
Balkanized | Describing a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with with antagonisms toward each other |
Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices in the anticipation that people of color will soon move into the neighborhood |
Centripetal force | An attitude that unifies people and enhances support for a state |
Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
Nationality | Identity within a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
Race | Identity within a group of people descended from a biological ancestor |
Sharecropper | A person who works in a field rented from a landowner and pays rent/repays loans by giving the landowner a share of the crops |
Triangular slave trade | A practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean Islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa |