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Words from Learning objective 4.1-4.4

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show a large aggregate of people united by common descent, history, culture, or language, inhabiting a particular country or territory.  
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nation-state   show
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show A nationality that is not represented by a state.  
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autonomous region   show
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show area where a group has some type of political autonomy. Semi-autonomous regions, like Kurdistan, has a degree of power and self-determination, but not fully like the autonomous regions of Russia in the North Caucasus region  
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show An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs. A country  
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show 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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multi-state nation   show
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show Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.  
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show Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves  
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independence movement   show
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devolution   show
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political boundaries   show
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show the defense of a bounded physical space against encroachment by other individuals  
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show power used to determine who will hold government office and how the government will behave  
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show control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures  
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show an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values  
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show a strategic, narrow waterway between two larger bodies of water  
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relic boundary   show
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show a boundary that is imposed on the cultural landscape which ignores pre-existing cultural patterns (typically a colonial boundary)...  
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show a boundary line that is established after the area in question has been settled and that considers the cultural characteristics of the bounded area  
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antecedent boundary   show
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show Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.  
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consequent boundary   show
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