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AP Human Vocab 4
Vocab for Unit 4
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| annexation | incorporating territory into another geo-political entity |
| antarctica | southermost continent that is not inhabited or owned by any country |
| apartheid | segregation of blacks in South Africa from 1948 to 1994 |
| balkanization | fragmentation or breakup of a region or country into smaller regions or countries |
| border landscape | two types are exclusionary and inclusionary. exclusionary is meant to keep people out and inclusionary facilitates trade and movement |
| boundary disputes | conflicts over the location, size, and extent of borders between nations |
| boundary origin | boundaries that originated from old tribal lands and lands won in war |
| boundary process | process of creating boundaries |
| boundary type | natural boundaries formed by rivers and mountains, and political boundaries formed through war and compromise in treaties |
| buffer state | country lying between two more powerful countries that are hostile to each other |
| capital | principle city in a state or country |
| centrifugal | religious, political, economic conflict that causes disunity |
| centripetal | attitude that unifies people and enhances support |
| city-state | region controlled by a city and has sovereignty |
| colonialism | attempt by a country to establish settlements and impose political and economic control |
| confederation | association of sovereign states by a treaty or agreement |
| conference of berlin | regulated trade and colonization in africa |
| core/periphery | core countries have high levels of development and periphery countries usually have less development and are poorer |
| decolonization | movement of american/european colonies gaining independence |
| devolution | decentralization of a government from a unitary to a federal system |
| domino theory | the idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of communism, then more would follow |
| exclusive economic zone | sea zone over which a state has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources |
| electoral regions | different voting districts that make up local, state, and national regions |
| enclave/exclave | an enclave is a country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country and an exclave is a country which is geographically separated from the main part |
| ethnic conflict | a war between ethnic groups |
| european union | supranational and intergovernmental union of 27 democratic member states of europe |
| federal | a political philosophy in which a group or body of members are bound together with a governing representative head |
| forward capital | a symbolically relocated capital city |
| frontier | a zone where no state exercises complete political control |
| geopolitics | the study that analyzes geography, history and social science with reference to international politics |
| gerrymandering | the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the political party in power |
| global commons | no one person or state may own or control and which it's central to life |
| heartland/rimland | central region of a country or continent |
| immigrant state | a type of receiving state which is the target of many immigrants |
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