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All the Unit 4 Vocab (POLITICAL) regardless of the chapter it falls into

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antecedent boundary   A boundary created before an area is known or populated often drawn with no recognition of the populations living there  
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subsequent boundary   Boundaries created after recognized settlement. They are meant to separate existing cultural groups and may signify an attempt to align the boundaries that exist between nations  
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superimposed boundary   Boundary line drawn in an area ignoring the existing cultural pattern  
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relic boundary   Old political boundaries that no longer exist as International borders but that have left and enduring mark on the local cultural or environmental geography  
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boundary delimitation   In political geography the translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation  
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boundary demarcation   In political geography the actual placing of a political boundary on the landscape by means of barriers, fences, walls, or other markers  
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natural/physical boundary   Political boundary defined and limited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape such as a river or the crest Ridges of a mountain range  
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consequent (ethnographic) boundary   A boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language  
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geometric boundary   straight lines drawn by people  
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City-state   A system of small, City Center states where political organization revolved around the city itself. People not engaged with agriculture lived in the city, while Farmers resided in the surrounding hinterlands  
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Colonialism   The expansion and perpetuation of an Empire  
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Decolonization   A trend in which colonies became independent from the states that colonize them after the United States declared its independence  
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Devolution   the transfer of power from one central gov't to many local/regional gov'ts (Ex: Fall of Soviet Union)  
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EEZ (Exclusive economic zone)   As established in the United Nations convention on the law of the sea, a zone of exploitation extending 200 nautical miles seaward from a coastal state that has exclusive mineral and fishing rights over it  
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Federal state   power is shared between central gov't and state or local gov't (ex. US)  
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Gerrymandering   changing voting boundaries based on race, voting patterns, class, etc (ex. if there's a big population of black voters, they would win seats as they outvote white voters)  
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Microstates   A state or territory that is small in both population and area  
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Nation   Tightly-knit group of individuals sharing a Common Language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes  
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Nation-state   A state that contains a single nation that is not disputed by anyone inside or outside (ex. Iceland, Japan)  
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nationalism   The ideology that maintains that members of a Nation should be allowed to form their own sovereign state  
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Shatter belt   Regions that are politically fragmented and are often areas of competition between two ideological or two religious realms  
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Sovereignty   An indicator that a particular government has complete control and jurisdiction over a defined area  
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State   A country or the most important spatial scale unit in political geography  
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Stateless ethnic groups   Groups with no state of inhabitance  
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Stateless nation   A nation that has no state to call its own  
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Supranationalism   Term applied to association's created by three or more States for their Mutual benefit and achievement of shared objectives  
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Territoriality   An individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a defined territory considered partially or wholly and exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory  
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Unitary state   power held primarily by central gov't without much power given to local gov't (ex: France)  
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Nation-States   Country made up of one nationality (examples: Iceland, Japan)  
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Multi-national States   Countries made up of many nationalities (examples: US, Canada)  
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Stateless Nations   Nationalities without a recognized home country (examples: Kurds, Palestinians)  
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Multi-state Nations   Nationalities that spread among many states (example: Koreans live in North & South Korea plus many in China and the US)  
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Cultural boundary   based on human traits or behaviors, without an official boundary  
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Ethnic cleansing   the process by which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create their own nation or nation-state  
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Ethnic separatism   the movement where an ethnic group within a state seeks to separate itself from the larger political entity  
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