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AP Human Geography Unit 4 Vocab Ch 9-11

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administer   to manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them  
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antecedent boundary   a border estblished before an area becomes heavily settled  
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autonomoous boundary   having authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example by having a seperate currency  
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choke point   a narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which its difficult to pass through  
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colonialism   the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories  
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concurrent   sharing authority  
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consequent boundary   a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, seperating groups that hace distinct languages religions, ethnicities, or other traits  
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define   to explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as treaty where boundaries are located, using refrence points such as natural features or lines of latitude and longitude  
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delimit   to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with legal agreement  
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demarcate   to place physicalobjects such as stones, pillars, walls, or fences to indicate where a boundary exists  
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devolution   the process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorites within borders  
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economies of scale   cost reduction that occurs when production rises  
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electoral college   a set of people, who are chosen to elect the president and vice president in the United States of America  
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ethnic cleansing   a processby which a state attacks an ethnic group and tries to eliminate it through expulsion, imprisonment, or killing  
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ethnic nationalism   the process by which the people of a country identify as having one common identity as having one common ethnicity, religous belief, and language, creating a sense of pride and idenity that is tied to the territory. AKA: ethnonationalism  
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ethnic seperation   the process by which people of a particular ethnicity in a multinational state identify more strongly as members of their ethnic group than citizens of the state  
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ethnonationalism   the process by which the people of a country identify as having one common identity as having one common ethnicity, religous belief, and language, creating a sense of pride and idenity that is tied to the territory. AKA: ethnic nationalism  
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exclusive economic zone (EEZ)   area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ  
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federal state   the organization of a state in which power is shared between the federal government and its internal regional units  
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geometric boundary   a mathematically drawn boundary that tipically follows lines of latitude and longitude or straight line arc between two points  
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gerry mandering   the drawing of legislative boundaries to give one political party an advantage in elections  
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imperialism   the push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples  
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irredentism   attempts by a state to aquire territories in the neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation.  
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majority-minority district   an electoral district in which the majority of voters are members of ethnic or racial minority  
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multinational state   a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders  
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multistate nation   people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country  
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nation   a cultural entity made up of people who have forged common identity through a shared laguage, religion, heritage, or ethnicity; often all four  
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nation-state   a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation  
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neocolonialism   the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependancies  
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political geography   the study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory  
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reapportionment   the redistribution of representative seats among states based on shifts in population  
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redistricting   the redrawing of internal territorial and political boundaries  
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relic   a former boundary that no longer has an official function  
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self-determination   the right of all people to choose their own political status  
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semi-autonomus   describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government  
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shatterbelt   a region where states form, join, and break up because of an ongoing, sometimes violent, conflict among parties and because they are caught between interests of more powerful outside states  
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sovereighty   the right of a governemt to control and defend its territoy and determine what happens within its borders  
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state   a politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a pernment population; a country  
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stateless nation   people united by culture, language, hisotry, and tradition but not possesing a state  
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subsequent boundaries   a border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapesexist or are in process of being established  
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superimposed boundary   a boder drawn over existig accepted borders by an outside or conquering force  
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supernational organization   an alliance of three or more states that work together in pursuit of common goals or to addresss an issue or challenge  
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territory   the attepmt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area, the connection of people their culture, and their economic systems to the land  
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unitary state   an organization of a state in which power is concentrated on central government  
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)   the international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries.  
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