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APHG Chapter 8 Terms

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Definition
show A system of government where elements of democracy and autocracy are employed  
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show A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.  
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Balance of Power   show
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show Dividing up the continent of Africa among the various European imperial powers  
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Boundary   show
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show An economic system in which businesses are owned by private individuals and companies who are free to decide what to produce and how much to charge  
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Centripetal   show
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show Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state.  
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City-state   show
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Containment Theory   show
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Colonialism   show
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show National or global regions where economic power, in terms of wealth, innovation, and advanced technology, is concentrated  
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Democracy   show
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Devolution   show
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show The idea that if one land in a region came under the influence of Communists, then more would follow in a domino effect  
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show A country or part of a country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country or wholly lying within the boundaries of another country  
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Exclave   show
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European Union   show
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show A system of government where power is shared (in various arrangements) between a centralized government and various regional authorities  
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Geometric Boundary   show
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show Process of re-drawing political voting districts to favor one political party  
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show Whoever owns the heartland of Eastern Europe will control the world  
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Imperialism   show
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show A state that is completely surrounded on all sides by other countries that has no direct access to the ocean  
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show A country that is small in both population and area  
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Multiethnic State   show
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show A country with multiple culture groups or multiple ethnic groups under a single government  
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Nation   show
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show A country whose political boundaries correspond with its cultural boundaries  
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NATO   show
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show The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is an intergovernmental organization of 13 oil-producing countries that aims to coordinate and unify the petroleum policies of its member states  
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show Countries that have a very low standard of living and low levels of industrial productivity  
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show A nation-state is similar to an organism in that both grow and expand to survive and prosper.  
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show The redistribution of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives based on changes in population.  
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show Suggests that sea power is more valuable and that alliances will keep the heartland in check  
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show Concept that every nation/ethnicity has the right to govern themselves  
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show Newly industrialized countries with the median standards of living  
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Shapes of States   show
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Sovereignty   show
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show A politically bound area controlled by an established government that has authority over its internal affairs and foreign policy.  
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show A nation of people without a state that it considers home  
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Supranational Organization   show
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Territoriality   show
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Terrorism   show
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UN   show
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Unilateralism   show
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Unitary State   show
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show An alliance founded in 1955 between Eastern European countries to serve as a military and political unit of contiguous communist nations.  
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