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chapter 8 vocab
political geography vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| anocracy | a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types |
| autocracy | a country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people |
| balance of power | a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries |
| boundary | an invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory |
| city- state | a sovereign state compromising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside |
| colonialism | an attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another country territory |
| colony | a territory that is legally tired to a sovereign state rather than completely independent |
| compact state | a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly |
| democracy | a country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office |
| elongated state | a state with a ling narrow shape |
| federal state | an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government |
| fragmented state | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory |
| frontier | a zone separating two states in which neither states exercises political control |
| gerrymandering | the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power |
| landlocked state | a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea |
| microstate | a state the encompasses a very small land area |
| multi-ethnic state | a state that contains more than one ethnicity |
| multi-national state | a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self- determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities |
| nation- state | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality |
| perforated state | a state that completely surrounds another one |
| prorupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large protecting extension |
| self- determinism | the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves |
| sovereignty | ability of a state to govern territory free from control of its internal affairs by other political states |
| state | an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs |
| terrorism | the systematic us of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands |
| unitary state | an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials |
| United Nations (UN) | nation states from all over the world that wanted peace maintained after world war 2 |
| - 3 Baltic states - 3 European states - 5 central Asian states - 3 Caucasus states - Russia | what are the 5 groups that were once in soviet union? |
| physical boundaries | coincide with significant features of the natural landscape |
| cultural landscape | follows the distribution of cultural characteristics |
| soviet union | Russia at the head with many other dictatorship countries as a part of it as well |
| NATO or Warsaw pact | safety groups to join after ww2 to insure safety on your state |
| European union (EU) | made up of only European states compared to the union nations that is made up of states from all over the world |
| organization on security and cooperation in Europe (OSCE) | was composed to end conflict in Europe and was used to call upon other member states to supply troops |
| organization of American states (OAS) | promoted social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states |
| African union (AU) | placed an emphasis on promoting economic integration in Africa |
| common wealth | made up of the UK and other states who seek economic and cultural cooperation |
| al-Qaeda | Afghanistan and Pakistan supported this by providing sanctuary for terrorists wanted by other states and helping them with military support as well as money and intelligence support |
| state | people/recognized territory/ government(bad or good)/ soveREIGNty |
| civilization | central decision making with a density (city). there is conflict with agriculture and economic diversity |
| nation | tied to a territory with a population and a culture that might have a government |
| antecedent | physical landscape defined the boundary well before humans |
| subsequent | vietnam-china border results from a long period of modification |
| super-imposed | forcibly drawn boundary that cuts across a unified cultural boundary- new guinea- indonesia and papua new guinea |
| reliect | no longer serves it purpose, but the imprint is still evident in the landscape |
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