APHG Chapter 8
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| Boundary | Somethings that indicated bounds of limits
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| Boundary Delimitation | political boundaries on Earth's surface are determined by the use of man-made structures such as fences and walls.
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| Boundary Dispute | When 2 or more states disagree about the demarcation of a political boundary.
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| Compact State | The Distance from the geographic center of the area to any point on the boundary does not vary greatly
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| Elongated State | State that is geographically long and narrow
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| Enclave | Portion of a state that is totally surrounded by another state
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| Exclave | small portion of land that is separated from the main state
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| Fragmented State | State split into many pieces
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| Landlocked State | State not having direct access to an ocean
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| Perforated State | State that totally surrounds another state
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| Prorupt State | State having a portion of a territory that is elongated
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| Microstate | state that is extremely small
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| Nation-State | Political unit comprising a clearly delineated territory where the population shared a common history and culture
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| Subsoil | below the surface of Earth. Boundaries are vertical planes, not merely lines of a map
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| Frontier | Zone where no state exercises political control
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| Physical Boundary | Major physical features such as deserts, mountain ranges, and or water bodies that serve as a means of separation
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| Geometric Boundary | Straight line that serve as political boundaries that are unrelated to physical and or cultural differences
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| Cultural Political Bondary | political boundary that separates difference cultures
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| Religious Boundary | Boundary that separates different religions
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| Language Boundary | Boundary that separates different language speakers
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| Genetic Boundary | How boundaries evolve over time
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| Antecendent Boundary | Boundary that was created before the present day cultural landscape developed
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| Subsequent Boundary | Boundaries that are created as a result of long-term process
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| Super Imposed Boundary | boundary that has been forced upon the inhabitants of an area to solve a problem and conflict
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| Relict Boundary | Boundary that ceases to exist, however the imprint of the boundary still remains of the cultural landscape
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| Fortified Boundary | When a state constructs physical barriers along a boundary to either keep people in or out of its territory
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| Nation | geographic are that is dominated by a large population that shares a common history and culture
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| State | political entity that maintains status as an independent country.
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| Ability | The capacity of a state to influence other states or achiever it's goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means.
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| Capitalism | Economic model where in people corporations and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market.
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| Centripetal | Forces that tend to unify a country
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| Colonialism | rule by autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and places.
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| Commodification | The process through which something is given monetary value.
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| Core | Process that incorporates higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technologies.
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| Critical Geopolitics | Process by which geopolticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians.
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| Democracy | Government based on the principle that the people are the ultimate sovereign and have the final say over what happens within the state.
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| Devolution | The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy.
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| Federal | A political-territorial system wherein a central government represents the various entities within a nation-state where they have common interests.
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| Gerrymandering | Redistricting for advantage, or practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give 1 political party and electoral majority in a large number of districts while concentrating the voting strength of the opposition in as few districts as possible.
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| Heartland Theory | a geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by British geographer Halford Mackinder,that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world.
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| Majority-Minority Districts | In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority.
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| Mercantilism | Associated with the promotion of commercialism and trade.
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| Multinational State | State with more than one nation within its borders
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| Multistate Nation | Nation that stretches across borders and across states
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| Peace of Westphalia | Peace negotiated in 1648 to end the 30 year's war.
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| Periphery | Processes that incorporate lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology; and generate less wealth that core processes in the world-economy
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| Physical-political boundary | Political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape
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| Political Geography | a subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on earth's surface.
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| Reapportionment | Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts, so that each district encompasses approximately the same number of people.
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| Scale | Representation of a real-world phenomenon at a certain level of reduction or generalization.
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| Semi-periphery | Place where core and periphery processes are both occurring
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