Ap Human Geography Chapter 8 Vocab Test Questions – Flashcards
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Political Geography
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Study of the political organization of the world
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State
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politically organized territory and a population defined territory and government
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Territorality
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"the attempt by an individual or group to affect,influence, or control people phenomennon relationships, by delimiting& asserting control over geographic area
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Sovereignty
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Right of a state to deffend sovern territory againts another state
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Territorial Intergrity
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Right of a state to defend sovergn territory againts incurrsion from other states
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Peace of Westphala
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Treaties constituted this peace and concluded Europe's most destructuve internal struggle over religion
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Mercantilism
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General sense associated with the promotion of commercialism trade, Protectioinost policy of European states in 16th&18th century
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Nation
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Culturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and government
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Nation-state
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Politically organized area nation and state occupy the same plae
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Democracy
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Idea that people, natin, have ultimate say over what happens within the state
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Multinational state
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One or more the one nation in a border
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Multistate nation
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Nation stretches across borders and scorss state
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Stateless nation
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Another complication that arises from the lack of fit between nations and state is that some nations do not have a state
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Colonialism
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Imperial powers exercised ruthless control over their domains& organized them for maximum economic expolitation
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Capitalism
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Means that in the world economy people, corperations, states produce goods and exchange them on a world market with the goal of schieving profit
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Commodification
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The process of placing a price on goods then buying selling trading goods
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Core
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Process incorporate higher levels of educatin and salaries and technology
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Periphery
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Incorporates lower slaries and less technology
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Semi-periphery
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Core and periphery processes are both occuring
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Ability
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Context of political power infulene each other states ar achieve its goals through diplomatic econmic& militaristic
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Centripetal
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Forces that instate unify people
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Centrifugal
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Forces divide
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Federal organization
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state territory into region, substates, province or state
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Devoltuion
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Movement of power from the central government to regional goernments within state
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Territoral respiration
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House of Representitives elected from a territorially defines district
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Splitting
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ten districts, majority white
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Majority-minority
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Packed districts majority of population from minority
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Gerrymandering
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"redistricting for advantage:
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Boundry
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Vertical plane cuts through rocks below airspace above
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Geometrical Boundries
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drawn using grid systems as latitude or longtitude township, range, political
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Physical Poltical
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boundries agreed upon feature in physical geographic landscape
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Heartland Theory
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Theory was little to foretell the rise of a super power in the heartland
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Critical Geopolitics
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Intellectuals of state craft with constant ideas about place, and ideas that reinforcce political behaviors
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Unilateralism
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U.S. position of a hard power dominance with allies rather the U.S, joining
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Supranational Ogranization
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Seperate enitity compound of three or more sates forge an association form an adminisrtative for mutual benefit
