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AP Human Geography Chapter 8: Political Geography

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Stateless Nation

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nation that does not have a state

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Majority-Minority Districts

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In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which a majority of the population is from the minority.

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Landlocked State

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A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.

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Scale

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Generally, the relationship between the portion of Earth being studied and Earth as a whole; specifically, the relationship between the size of an object on a map and the size of the actual feature on Earth's surface

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Heartland Theory

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A geopolitical hypothesis, proposed by British geographer Halford Mackinder during the first two decades of the twentieth century, that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient strength to eventually dominate the world. Mackinder further proposed that since Eastern Europe controlled access to the Eurasian interior, its ruler would command the vast "heartland" to the east

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Splitting

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In the context of determining representative districts, the process by which the majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created therein ensuring control by the majority of each of the districts; as opposed to the result of majority-minority districts

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Terrorism

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The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.

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Centrifrugal

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things that cause disunity in the state (ex: political, religious, or economic conflict)

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nation-state

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A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality

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Multistate Nation

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nation that stretches across borders and across states

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Geometric Boundary

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Political boundaries that are defined and delimited by straight lines.

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Anocracy

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A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types.

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Devolution

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The process whereby regions within a state demand and gain political strength and growing autonomy at the expense of the central government.

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Political Geography

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A subdivision of human geography focused on the nature and implications of the evolving spatial organization of political governance and formal political practice on the Earth's surface. It is concerned with why political spaces emerge in the places that they do and with how the character of those spaces affects social, political, economic, and environmental understandings and practices.

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Self-determination

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Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

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Capitalism

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Economic model wherein people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market, with the goal of achieving profit.

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Commodification

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the process though which something is given monetary value

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Unitary

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A nation-state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state

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city-state

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A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

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Gerrymandering

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Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

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Colonialism

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Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

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colony

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A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.

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Centripetal

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An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state

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Democracy

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A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

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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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Supranational Organization

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A venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. The European Union is one such organization.

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Physical Boundary

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political boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape

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Nation-state

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Theoretically, a recognized member of the modern state system possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation. Most nations and states aspire to this form, but it is realized almost nowhere. Nonetheless, in common parlance, nation-state is used as a synonym for country or state.

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State

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An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.

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frontier

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A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.

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Nation

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Legally, a term encompassing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions now tend to refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes. Such homogeneity actually prevails within very few states.

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Federal State

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An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

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Autocracy

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A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people

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Multinational State

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state with more than one nation within its borders

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Territoriality

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In political geography, a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended.

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Balance of Power

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Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.

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Colonialism

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rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place. Although often established and maintained through political structures, colonialism also creates unequal cultural and economic relations. Because of the magnitude and impact of the European colonial project of the last centuries, the term is generally understood to refer to that particular colonial endeavor.

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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 interest- defense, foreign affairs, and the like- yet allows these various entities to retain their own identities and to have their own laws, policies, and customs in certain spheres.

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Sovereignty

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Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

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Boundary

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vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below, and the airspace above the surface

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Territory

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Area of land controlled by a nation.

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