Unit 4 APHG Political Geography Rubenstein Part 4

Question 1

The triangle trade sent goods to ______________ and ___________ to Africa

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Europe: Rum

Question 2

Boundaries that are physically there (Berlin Wall) but no longer function

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Relic boundaries

Question 3

Easing tensions within boundaries by transferring power from a central government downward

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devolution

Question 4

Is the area of a state where political or economic strength is located

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Core

Question 5

Countries are considered to be _____________ when their people allow the government to rule.

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internally legitimate

Question 6

Created in Africa, but were not based on cultural groupings but based on resource availability.

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Borders

Question 7

The boundary types include all the following EXCEPT

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Cultural

Question 8

Recognition of power by other countries.

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Legitamacy

Question 9

How the people who hold the power in government are chosen

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Politics

Question 10

Unitary states concentrate power

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in one federal Government

Question 11

The overthrow of colonial powers, called ______, has created more states than any other reason.

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decolonization

Question 12

Geographers study the relationship between people, and territory at all scales except

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State

Question 13

The oldest ancient political system was located in

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Mesopotamia

Question 14

States with projecting area, which may provide access to a resource or cut off part of nation

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Prorupted State

Question 15

This country owned or controlled the most colonies on the African Continent

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France

Question 16

political power was in large, borderless empires, city-states, tribal systems and feudal areas.

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Up until the 1500s

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Established what we know of as the modern “state system” in Europe

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In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia

Question 18

The three reasons Europeans colonized around the world include all EXCEPT

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Gifts

Question 19

A Nation is a group of people with everything except

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soveriegnty

Question 20

Establishing political dominance over a people for economic, political, and territorial gain.

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Colonialism

Question 21

12-miles of territorial sea and 200 miles of Exclusive Economic Zone.

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Maritime Boundaries

Question 22

A nation-state is a state with primarily only one nation within its borders. Examples include

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Iceland, Denmark, Japan

Question 23

A State is a political unit with all of the following except:

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same ethnicities

Question 24

The major types of alliances include all of the following EXCEPT

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Partition

Question 25

Multinational state is a state that includes more than one nation within its borders. Examples

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Canada, United States, Russian Federation

Question 26

study of the relationship between people, political units, and territory at various scales.

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Political Geography

Question 27

formally independent state but under heavy military, economic, and political control by another

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A satellite state

Question 28

Is a state or group of states are influenced by other larger competing states.

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A shatterbelt

Question 29

policy of extending a country’s influence to areas already developed by an indigenous society.

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Imperialism

Question 30

acts as a buffer state between Russia and China who have had border conflicts for centuries.

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Mongolia

Question 31

A stateless nation include all except

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Western Sahara

Question 32

The Heartland theory is to Rimland theory as

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Land is to sea

Question 33

The effort to control pieces of the earth’s surface for personal, political, or social ends.

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Territoriality

Question 34

The power that a government has to control its own territory.

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Sovereignty

Question 35

Lasted from the early 15th century until the early 19th century, and spread European colonies

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The Age of Discovery

Unit 4 APHG Political Geography Rubenstein Part 4

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Unit 4 APHG Political Geography Rubenstein Part 4

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