Ch 7 KI 3 & 4 Vocab Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Centrifugal Force | A force that creates division and conflict among people |
| Centripetal Force | An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state |
| Nationalism | Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality |
| Nationality | Identity with a group of people that share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there |
| Balkanized | Descriptive of a small geographic area that could not successfully be organized into one or more stable states because it was inhabited by many ethnicities with complex, long standing antagonisms toward each other |
| Balkanization | A process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities |
| Devolution | The transition of power from the central government to regional governments in a state |
| Ethnic Cleansing | A process in which a more powerful ethnic groups forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region |
| Genocide | The mass killing of a group of people in an attempt to eliminate the entire group from existence |
| Irredentism | The assertion by the government of a country that has a minority living outside its former borders belonging to it historically and culturally |
| Ethnocentrism | The belief in the superiority of one's own ethnicity/culture (judging by personal cultural standards) |
| Cultural Relativism | The practice of judging another culture by its own standards (putting aside personal cultural preferences) |
| Shatter Belt | a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals |
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