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political geography vocab

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