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AP Human Geo Unit 4

Unit 4 Key Terms

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State largest political unit, the formal term for a country.
Sovereignty The power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs
Nation group of people who have certain things in common: cultural heritage, a set of beliefs and values, a traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland, a desire to establish their own state.
Nation state A nation of people that form a state with strong national identity coupled with strict immigration policies.
Autonomous Region A defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state
semiautonomous region. A state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule
stateless nation a cultural group that has no independent political entity.
multistate nation occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.
multinational state multinational state is a country that contains more than one nation
nationalism is a nation's desire to create and maintain a state of its own.
Imperialism is a broader concept that includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance.
Colonialism is a particular type of imperialism in which people move into and settle on the land of another country.
self-determination the right to choose their own sovereign government without external influence.
decolonization the undoing of colonization, in which indigenous people reclaim sovereignty over their territory.
genocide organized mass killing, in which people are targeted because of their race, religion, ethnicity, or nationality.
Cold War a period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
satellite states state dominated by another politically and economically.
devolution. This process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit
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