AP Human Geography-Unit 4 – Flashcards
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Federal
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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
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Redistricting for advantage, or the practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party an electoral majority in a large number of districts
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Heartland
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the part of a region considered essential to the viability and survival of the whole, esp. a central land area relatively invulnerable to attack and capable of economic and political self-sufficiency.
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Landlocked
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having no direct access to water.
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Mini State
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small independent nation
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Nation
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a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own
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Nation-State
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a sovereign state inhabited by a relatively homogeneous group of people who share a feeling of common nationality.
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National Iconography
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Figural representations, either individual or symbolic, religious or secular; More broadly, the art of representation by pictures or images, which may or may not have a symbolic as well as an apparent or superficial meaning.
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Reapportionment
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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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Regionalism
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a foreign policy that defines the international interests of a country in terms of particular geographic areas
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Reunification
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To cause (a group, party, state, or sect) to become unified again after being divided.
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Satellite State
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Formally independent, but under heavy influence or control by another country
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Self-Determination
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the ability of a government to determine their own course of their own free will
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Shatter Belt
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an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values
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Sovereignty
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A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states
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State
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Has a defined territory, a permanet population, a government, and is recognized by other states.
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Stateless Nation
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Nation that does not have a state.
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Suffrage
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The right or privelage to vote.
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Supranationalism
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outside or beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.
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Territorially
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A country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it invoidable and strongly defended.
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Theocracy
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A state whose government is under the control of a ruler who is deemed to be divinely guided
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Treaty Ports
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Cities opened to foreign residents as a result of the forced treaties between the Qing Empire and foreign signatories. In the treaty ports, foreigners enjoyed extraterritoriality.
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Annexation
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the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation
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Apartheid
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a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites
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Balkanization
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Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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Border Landscape
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1. Exculsionary- Meant to keep people out 2. Inclsionary- Meant to facillitate trade and movement
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Natural Boundary
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When a physical feature such as a mountain or river determine a political boundary
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Physical Boundary
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Political Boundaries that correspond with physical features such as mountains or rivers.
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Unitary
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characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is held by one central authority
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Geopolitics
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The interplay among geography, power, politics, and international relations.
