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AP Human Geo Ch 7
rubenstein vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Laws(no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas. | Apartheid |
| Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities. | Balkanization |
| A small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one of more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other. | Balkanized |
| A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that black families will soon move into the neighborhood. | Blockbusting |
| An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state. | Centripetal force |
| Identity with a group of people that share distinctive physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions. | Ethnicity |
| Process in which more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous group. | Ethnic Cleansing |
| State that contains more than one ethnicity. | Multi-ethnic state |
| contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities | Multinational State |
| loyalty and devotion to a nationality | Nationalism |
| is identity with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular country | Nationality |
| a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | Nation-State |
| identity with a group of people who share a biological ancestor | Race |
| the belief that race is primarily determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race | Racism |
| a person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism | Racist |
| the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | Self-determination |
| works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent by turning over to the landowner a share of crops | Sharecropper |
| an efficient triangular trading pattern | Triangular Slave Trade |