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AP Geography Vocab 7
Vocabulary for chapter 7 of The cultural landscape an intro. to human geography
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Apartheid | Laws(no longer in effect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas |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 | Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long-standing antagonisms toward each other |
| Blockbusting | A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices because of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood |
| Centripetal force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Ethnic cleansing | A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogenous region |
| Ethnicity | Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions |
| Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence |
| Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
| Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
| Race | Identity with a group of people descended from a biological ancestor |
| Racism | Belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race |
| Racist | A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism |
| Sharecropper | A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops |
| Triangular slave trade | A practice, primarily during the eighteenth 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 |