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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Question: Political Answer: a branch of geography that deals with human governments, the boundaries and subdivisions of units (as nations or states), and the situations of cities Question: StateAnswer: A country. Has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states. (a ) Question: Answer: a country's more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended. (personal ) Question: SovereigntyAnswer: a principle of international relations that that final authority over social, economic, and political matters, should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states. (legally having the last say over a territory) Question: Territorial Answer: the right of a to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states. ( the status, dominion, power, or authority of a sovereign; royalty) Question: of WestphaliaAnswer: peace negotiated in 1648 to end the Thirty Years' War, Europe's most destructive internal struggle over religion. The treaties contained new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security. Question: Answer: economic doctrine that control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the military security of the country. (It demands a positive balance of trade economic policy of the commercial age preceding Industrial Revolution.) Question: NationAnswer: A tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, , and other cultural attributes. (EGHS) Question: -StateAnswer: A state made up of a (Japan) Question: Answer: Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate and have the final say over what happens within the state. (US Government) Question: -StateAnswer: state with more than one within its borders (USA) Question: -NationAnswer: Nation that stretches across borders and across (Christians) Question: -NationAnswer: that has no state (Kurds) Question: ColonialismAnswer: Colonialism is the establishment, exploitation, maintenance, acquisition and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory (British ) Question: ScaleAnswer: Representation of a real phenomenon at a certain level of reduction of generalization (Global or world) Question: Answer: Economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of profit. (prices and wages are determined by the forces of supply and demand) Question: CommodificationAnswer: the process through which something in given monetary value (pertaining to corn, soybeans, , or other raw materials (i.e., the idea that "it's all the same."), but financial instruments can be commoditized, too) Question: Answer: Processes that incorporate higher levels od education, higher salaries, and more technology; generate more wealth than periphery processes in the economy (USA) Question: Answer: Same as core; less (African countries) Question: Semi-PeripheryAnswer: Places that both core and periphery processed are occurring; places that are by the core but in turn exploit the periphery (China) Question: AbilityAnswer: In the context of political power, the capacity of a to influence other states or achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, or militaristic means. Question: Answer: Forces that tend to a courtry Question: Centrifugal Answer: Forces that tend to divide a Question: Answer: a nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises equality over all parts of the state Question: Answer: Having or relating to a system of government in which several states form a unity but remain in internal affairs. Question: DevolutionAnswer: The process whereby religions within a demand and gain a political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government. Question: Territorial Answer: system wherein each is elected from a territoriality defined district Question: Answer: process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same of people Question: SplittingAnswer: the process by which the majority and minority pops. are spread evenly across each of the to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the results of majority-majority districts Question: -Minority DistrictsAnswer: the process by a majority of the population is from the minority Question: Answer: for advantage Question: BoundaryAnswer: Vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the . Question: BoundaryAnswer: Political boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or arch (US and ) Question: GeopoliticsAnswer: Process by which deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spacial assumptions ans territorial perspectives of politicians Question: -Political BoundaryAnswer: boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape Question: TheoryAnswer: Hypothesis proposed by Mackinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. Question: UnilateralismAnswer: world order in which one state is in a position of dominance with following rather than joining the political decision making process Question: OrganizationAnswer: A venture involving 3 or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cooperation to promote shared objectives Question: Antecedent Answer: a boundary line established before an area is Question: Answer: The contentious political by which a state may break up into smaller countries Question: Buffer Answer: a relatively small country sandwiched two larger powers Question: Answer: the expansion and of an empire Question: stateAnswer: a state that possesses a roughly circular, oval, or rectangular territory in which the from the geometric center in relatively equal in all dirrections Question: Confederation Answer: a form of an organization that brings several autonomous states together for a common purpose Question: DemocratizationAnswer: The process of establishing representative and accountable of government led by popularly elected officials Question: TheoryAnswer: the idea that political destabilization in one country can lead to collapse of organization, such as state or country Question: CollegeAnswer: a certain number of electors from each proportional to and seemingly representative of that's state population. Each elector chooses a candidate believing they are representing their constituency's choice. Question: VoteAnswer: The decision of a particular elector that represents the dominant views of that elector's state Question: Elongated Answer: a state whose is long and narrow in shape Question: Answer: any small and relatively homogeneous group or religion by another larger and different group or region Question: European Answer: organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members Question: Fragmented Answer: that aren't contiguous whole but rather separated parts Question: FrontierAnswer: An area where borders are shifting and weak and where of different cultures or nationalities meet and lay land to claim Question: Answer: the study of the interplay political relations and the territorial context in which they occur Question: ImperialismAnswer: the perception of a colonial empire even after it is no longer sovereign Question: OrganizationAnswer: an alliance of two or more countries cooperation with each other without giving up either's autonomy or self-determination Question: StateAnswer: a state that is completely by the land of other states, which gives it a disadvantage in terms of accessibility to and from international trade routes Question: Law of the Answer: law establishing states' and responsibilities concerning the ownership and use of the earth's seas and oceans and their resources Question: Answer: 's expansionist theory based on a drive to acquire "living space" for the German people Question: MicrostateAnswer: a state or territory that is small in both and area Question: Answer: A sense of national pride to such an of exalting one nation above all others Question: American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)Answer: Agreement signed on January 1st, 1994, that allows the opening of borders between US, , and Mexico Question: North Atlantic Treaty (NATO)Answer: An international organization that has joined together for military Question: Organic Answer: The view that states resemble biological organisms with life cycles that include stages of , maturity, and old age. Question: Perforated Answer: a state whose territory completely surrounds that of Question: Popular Answer: the tally of each 's vote within a given geographic area Question: Prorupted Answer: a state that a narrow, elongated land extension leading away from the main territory Question: StateAnswer: a state who's is rectangular shaped Question: RedistrictingAnswer: the drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population Question: BoundariesAnswer: old political that no longer exist as international boundaries, but have left a mark Question: TheoryAnswer: Nicholas Spykman's theory that the domination of the fringes of Eurasia would provide the base for world conquest Question: Self-determinationAnswer: the of a nation to govern itself autonomously Question: States' Answer: rights and powers believed to be in the authority of the state than the federal government Question: Subsequent Answer: boundary line established after an area has been settled that considers the social and characteristics of an area Question: BoundariesAnswer: boundary line in an area ignoring the existing cultural pattern Question: Territorial Answer: any over land ownership Question: OrganizationAnswer: political organization that distributes political power in more easily governed units of Question: Answer: a state government is either believed to be divinely guided or a state under the control of a group of religious leaders Question: United (UN)Answer: a global supranational organization established at the end of WW2 to international security and cooperation |
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