Mr. Durr APHuG
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 state | ara organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government |
| sovereignty | the supreme and absolute authority within territorial boundaries |
| nation | group of people with common ethnic and poltical identity, or cultural centrepetal force like a football team. Go Gators! |
| Ratzel's "organic theory" | states that do not expand their land area would disintegrate like an organism that fails to find food. |
| imperialism | control a territory that is already inhabited |
| colonialism | control of territory previously unoccupied. "yea right", -Chief Buffalohead |
| decolonization | process of countries becoming independent from their colonial rulers; Mexico becomes independent; Happy Cinco DeMayo |
| compact states | ideal shape of state in which the shape allows for more effective administration of the space/county |
| elongated state | long and thin states w/poor communication |
| fragmented state | land of the state is separated by by water or another country. "take me to Chocolate Hills please" |
| perforated state | within these states there is another state that is completely surrounded by them. |
| exclave | part of one state that is completely surrounded by another state |
| Lesotho | an enclave state |
| boundaries | limits of the state |
| antecedent boundaries | natural boundaries long before the areas became populated; think Himalayas |
| geometric boundaries | straight line borders |
| sea empires | importance expressed by Alfred Mahan and agreed with by Theodore Roosevelt; what is the Great White Fleet |
| euro | currency of the European Union |
| terrorism | systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands |
| devolution | because of pressure e.g. from ethnic groups, power is drawn from the center to localities |
| Kurds | stateless nation |
| apartheid | physical separation of different races into separate geographic areas; separate is never equal (Brown v. Board 1954) |
| centripetal force | component that unifies people within the state or nation |
| branch | the first division of a religion: Christianity has three |
| diaspora | part of Jewish history as they have been scattered from their hearth for generations |
| Hinduism | the world's largest ethnic religion |
| lingua franca | common language can be used for purposes like international communication |
| BRP | dialect associated with upper class Britons |
| Indo-European | world's most commonly spoken language family, Go West Germanic!" |
| hierarchical diffusion | how soccer became a globalized sport |
| Ravenstein's Laws | migrants tend to be younger, single, and male |
| relocation diffusion | how the amish culture spread to America |
| Malthusian Theory | population will eventually outstrip the food supply |
| dependency ratio | the amount of people in a population under th age of 15 |
| agricultural density | the number of farmers per given areas of land. 100 farmers: 1000 acres of land |
| carrying capacity | the amount of people a given area can support |
| physiological density | number of people supported by a unit area of arable land; land that can be used to grow stuff, like beets, "right Tinky Winky?" |
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