Vocabulary
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| 8591077580 | State | Is an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs | 0 | |
| 8591077581 | Sovereignty | Is the independence from control of its internal affairs by other states | 1 | |
| 8591077582 | Microstates | Are states with very small land area | 2 | |
| 8591077583 | City-state | Is a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside | 3 | |
| 8591077584 | Nation-state | Is a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity | 4 | |
| 8591077585 | Self-determination | Is the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves | 5 | |
| 8591077586 | Multinational state | Is a country that contains more than one ethnicity with traditions of self-determination | 6 | |
| 8591077587 | Colonialism | Is an effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory | 7 | |
| 8591580868 | Autonomous region | Is a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from its parent state | 8 | |
| 8591580869 | Stateless nations | Are cultural groups that have no independent political entity | 9 | |
| 8591580870 | Multistate nation | Is when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states | 10 | |
| 8591580871 | Nationalism | Is a nations desire to create and maintain a state of its own | 11 | |
| 8591580872 | Centrifugal forces | Is a force that "pulls away from the center" or ones that tend to break apart states or keep one from forming | 12 | |
| 8591580873 | Imperialism | Includes a variety of ways of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, by economic control, or by cultural dominance | 13 | |
| 8591580874 | Early colonialism | The first wave of European colonialism was led by Spain and Portugal and then by France and Britain | 14 | |
| 8591580875 | Later colonialism | During the nineteenth century the Spanish and the Portuguese empires declined, but other European countries launched a second wave of colonization | 15 | |
| 8591580876 | Berlin conference(Congo Conference) | Used claims made in 1884 and 1885 to form state boundaries in Africa | 16 | |
| 8591580877 | Decolonization | When imperialist nations granted independence to their colonies. | 17 | |
| 8591580878 | Neocolonialism | Is when control over developing countries was exerted through indirect means, whether economic, political, or even cultural power | 18 | |
| 8591580879 | Cold war | A period of diplomatic, political, and military rivalry between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics(Soviet Union) | 19 | |
| 8591580880 | Satellite states | Eastern European states under the control of the Soviet Union during the Cold War | 20 |
