APHG unit IV vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Annexation | the entrance of a territory into a geo-political entity |
| Antarctica | a snow-covered continent that lies on the South Pole |
| Apartheid | a form of government that advocated racial segregation |
| Balkanization | a state begins to split up into smaller states |
| Definitional | (boundary dispute) dispute over language issues |
| Locational | (boundary dispute) dispute over where a boundary is placed |
| Operational | (boundary dispute) dispute over management of a boundary |
| Allocational | (boundary dispute) dispute over who owns the resources |
| Boundary Origins | Boundaries often originated from old tribal lands and lands won in war. They were meant to establish claims to land and were often smaller historically. |
| Definition | (boundary process) defining the boundary itself |
| Delimitation | (boundary process) drawing it on a map |
| Demarcation | (boundary process) setting up a physical boundary |
| Administration | (boundary process) administering the boundary |
| Natural/Physical | (boundary type) non-manmade boundaries, such as mountains |
| Ethnographic/Cultural | (boundary type) boundaries defined by culture |
| Geometric | (boundary type) boundaries drawn with grid systems |
| Buffer State | small country in the middle of two larger states |
| Centrifugal | forces that separate or divide a state |
| Centripetal | forces that unify a state |
| Conference of Berlin | regulated the amount of European colonization and African trade that was taking place in Africa |
| Core Periphery | Core are economically advanced countries. Periphery has a much less developed economy. |
| Devolution | central powers go to smaller regions in the state |
| EEZ (Exclusive economic Zone) | state has rights over marine resources for exploration |
| EU | a Union of Europe's most major states, consisting of 27 states |
| Geopolitics | the study of geography, social sciences, and history |
| Gerrymander | to give a political party an unfair advantage over the fair vote |
| Heartland/Rimland | the Heartland refers to upper Eurasia, Rimland refers to the area surrounding the Heartland |
| Internation Organization | organization of sovereign states |
| Iron Curtain | boundary separating the NATO states from the WARSAW Pact states, such as the Berlin Wall |
| Israel/Palestine | Israel is a state in Western Asia. It borders Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Lebanon; Palestine is a nation of people |
| Landlocked | state that is surrounded by land; almost or completely |
| Law of the Sea | law that established the state's rights to the ownership of the seas and the resources that they supplied |
| Lebanon | a Middle-Eastern state bordering Syria and Israel |
| Halford J. Mackinder | geographer and a founder of geopolitics |
| Manifest Destiny | the belief in the destiny to travel west y the Americans in the 19th century |
| Median-line Principle | boundaries that are at the midpoint of two places |
| Microstate | very small state with sovereignty |
| Nation | a culturally defined group of people |
| Nation-State | a state that has the same single nation |
| Nunavut | largest and newest territory of Canada |
| Reapportionment | reallocating a political power among a set of principles |
| Satellite State | a country that is formally independent |
| Sovereignty | an exclusive right to control a government, people, or oneself |
| State | a political area with a government and sovereignty |
| Stateless Ethnic Groups | Groups with no such state of inhabitance, such as the Kurds |
| Stateless nation | a nation that doesn't fall under any state, such as Kurdistan |
| Suffrage | right to vote |
| Supranationalism | transcending national boundaries, authority, or interests |
| Territorial Morphology | a state's physical shape |
| UNCLOS | United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, laws and guidelines for the use of seas |
| Unitary | consisting of or based off of one unit |
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