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Chapter 8 vocab
Chapter 8 Key Terms (Jeppson)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Balance of Power | A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing alliances |
| Federal State | A government structure where the central government allocates power to units of local government |
| Micro State | States with very small land areas |
| elongated state | a state with a long narrow shape |
| Fragmented State | Several Discontinuous Pieces of Territory |
| Unitary State | A state that places most power in the hands of the central government |
| compact state | a state where the ditance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly |
| Sovereignty | Independence from control of its internal affairs by other states (aka: the right to self-government without interference from other states) |
| Imperialism | the control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society |
| confederation | an organization structure where the states retain their sovereignty but surrenders some authority to an international governing authority |
| state | an area organized into a political unit ruled by an established government |
| perforated state | a state that completely surrounds another |
| colonialism | the effort by one country to establish settlements outside its own political boundaries and impose its political, economic, and cultural ways on the people there |
| Boundary | An invisible line marking the extend of a state's territory |
| Landlocked state | a state that laks a direct outlet to the sea because it is completely surrounded by other states |
| prorupted state | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension |
| frontier | a zone where no state exercises complete political control |
| Gerrymandering | the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefitting the party in power |
| city state | a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside |
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