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

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show A boundary created before an area is known or populated often drawn with no recognition of the populations living there  
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show 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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show Boundary line drawn in an area ignoring the existing cultural pattern  
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show 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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show In political geography the translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty into an official cartographic representation  
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show 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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show 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   show
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show straight lines drawn by people  
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City-state   show
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Colonialism   show
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show A trend in which colonies became independent from the states that colonize them after the United States declared its independence  
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show the transfer of power from one central gov't to many local/regional gov'ts (Ex: Fall of Soviet Union)  
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show 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   show
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show 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   show
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show Tightly-knit group of individuals sharing a Common Language, ethnicity, religion, and other cultural attributes  
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Nation-state   show
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show The ideology that maintains that members of a Nation should be allowed to form their own sovereign state  
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Shatter belt   show
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show An indicator that a particular government has complete control and jurisdiction over a defined area  
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State   show
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Stateless ethnic groups   show
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Stateless nation   show
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Supranationalism   show
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show 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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show power held primarily by central gov't without much power given to local gov't (ex: France)  
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Nation-States   show
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show Countries made up of many nationalities (examples: US, Canada)  
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Stateless Nations   show
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Multi-state Nations   show
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Cultural boundary   show
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Ethnic cleansing   show
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Ethnic separatism   show
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