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| 8793665415 | Balance Of Power | A condition of roughly equal strengths between opposing countries or alliances of countries. | 0 | |
| 8793680939 | Terrorism | The system use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands. | 1 | |
| 8793815117 | Frontier | A zone separating two states in which neither states exercises political control. | 2 | |
| 8793820198 | Gerrymandering | The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. | 3 | |
| 8793834032 | State | An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. | 4 | |
| 8795820894 | Sovereignty | government free from external control | 5 | |
| 8795846489 | Microstate | a state that encompasses a very small land area | 6 | |
| 8795852243 | City-State | a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside | 7 | |
| 8795856649 | Colony | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent | 8 | |
| 8795859629 | Colonialism | attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory | 9 | |
| 8795865233 | Imperialism | control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society | 10 | |
| 8795869359 | Boundary | an indivisible line marking the extent of a state's territory | 11 | |
| 8795924721 | Unitary State | an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials | 12 | |
| 8795929005 | Federal State | an internal organization of that state that allocates most powers to units of local governments | 13 | |
| 8795832786 | Compact State | a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly; usually shaped circular | 14 | |
| 8795944893 | Elongated State | a state with a long, narrow shape | 15 | |
| 8795946673 | Fragmented States | a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory | 16 | |
| 8795949499 | Perforated State | a state completely surrounded by another state | 17 | |
| 8795952531 | Prorupted State | an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension | 18 | |
| 8795969734 | Landlocked | a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea | 19 | |
| 8795974788 | Physical Boundaries | boundaries that are made by important physical features on Earth's surface; can include mountains, deserts and water. | 20 | |
| 8795982934 | Cultural Boundaries | boundaries between states that coincide with differences in ethnicity, especially language and religion; another cultural boundary is drawn according to geometry | 21 | |
| 8796038732 | Desert Boundary | -It can effectively divide two states. -It is hard to cross and sparsely inhabited. -Common in Asia and Africa | 22 | |
| 8796044508 | Mountain Boundary | -Effective if they are difficult to cross, -Contact between opposite sides can be limited or impossible -Do not always provide friendly separation of neighborhoods | 23 | |
| 8796049912 | Water Boundary | -As a result of colonialism. -River, lakes, and oceans are the boundaries and they are separated down the middle of the waters. -Typical in East Africa. | 24 | |
| 8796060662 | Wasted Vote | Spreads the opposition supporters across many districts | 25 | |
| 8796067083 | Excess Vote | Type of gerrymandering that concentrates opposition supporters into a few districts | 26 | |
| 8796070489 | Stacked Vote | Links liked-minded, distant voters with oddly-drawn boundaries | 27 | |
| 8796090460 | Nation | a politically organized body of people under a single government | 28 | |
| 8796093203 | Nation State | a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality | 29 | |
| 8796071623 | Multinational State | contains two ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities | 30 | |
| 8796110034 | Stateless | without a state or nationality | 31 | |
| 8796124361 | Multistate nation | Nation stretches across borders and acorss state | 32 | |
| 8796147071 | Packing | Grouping as many voters of the opposite party that you can into the same group | 33 | |
| 8796150162 | Cracking | Voters of the opposing party are scattered and divided of the opposite party among many districts, spreading them out in the hope that your party has the majority in all the districts | 34 | |
| 8796164035 | Enclave | a territory whose geographical boundaries lie entirely within the boundaries of another territory | 35 | |
| 8796166694 | Exclave | is a territory legally or politically attached to another territory with which it is not politically contiguous | 36 | |
| 8796184951 | Redistricting | Redrawing the boundaries of voting districts | 37 | |
| 8796194605 | Voting Blocs | Group of voters within a set of boundaries | 38 | |
| 8796240884 | territoriality | a country's local community's sense of property and attachment toward its territory | 39 | |
| 8796240885 | centrepedal | Forces within a state that promote unity | 40 |
