55012216 | Political Geography | Study of the political organization of the world | |
55012217 | State | politically organized territory and a population defined territory and government | |
55012218 | Territorality | "the attempt by an individual or group to affect,influence, or control people phenomennon relationships, by delimiting& asserting control over geographic area | |
55012219 | Sovereignty | Right of a state to deffend sovern territory againts another state | |
55012220 | Territorial Intergrity | Right of a state to defend sovergn territory againts incurrsion from other states | |
55012221 | Peace of Westphala | Treaties constituted this peace and concluded Europe's most destructuve internal struggle over religion | |
55012222 | Mercantilism | General sense associated with the promotion of commercialism trade, Protectioinost policy of European states in 16th&18th century | |
55012223 | Nation | Culturally defined group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to a territory and government | |
55012224 | Nation-state | Politically organized area nation and state occupy the same plae | |
55012225 | Democracy | Idea that people, natin, have ultimate say over what happens within the state | |
55012226 | Multinational state | One or more the one nation in a border | |
55012227 | Multistate nation | Nation stretches across borders and scorss state | |
55012228 | Stateless nation | Another complication that arises from the lack of fit between nations and state is that some nations do not have a state | |
55012229 | Colonialism | Imperial powers exercised ruthless control over their domains& organized them for maximum economic expolitation | |
55012230 | Capitalism | Means that in the world economy people, corperations, states produce goods and exchange them on a world market with the goal of schieving profit | |
55012231 | Commodification | The process of placing a price on goods then buying selling trading goods | |
55012232 | Core | Process incorporate higher levels of educatin and salaries and technology | |
55012233 | Periphery | Incorporates lower slaries and less technology | |
55012234 | Semi-periphery | Core and periphery processes are both occuring | |
55012235 | Ability | Context of political power infulene each other states ar achieve its goals through diplomatic econmic& militaristic | |
55012236 | Centripetal | Forces that instate unify people | |
55012237 | Centrifugal | Forces divide | |
55012238 | Federal organization | state territory into region, substates, province or state | |
55012239 | Devoltuion | Movement of power from the central government to regional goernments within state | |
55012240 | Territoral respiration | House of Representitives elected from a territorially defines district | |
55012241 | Splitting | ten districts, majority white | |
55012242 | Majority-minority | Packed districts majority of population from minority | |
55012243 | Gerrymandering | "redistricting for advantage: | |
55012244 | Boundry | Vertical plane cuts through rocks below airspace above | |
55012245 | Geometrical Boundries | drawn using grid systems as latitude or longtitude township, range, political | |
55012246 | Physical Poltical | boundries agreed upon feature in physical geographic landscape | |
55012247 | Heartland Theory | Theory was little to foretell the rise of a super power in the heartland | |
55012248 | Critical Geopolitics | Intellectuals of state craft with constant ideas about place, and ideas that reinforcce political behaviors | |
55012249 | Unilateralism | U.S. position of a hard power dominance with allies rather the U.S, joining | |
55012250 | Supranational Ogranization | Seperate enitity compound of three or more sates forge an association form an adminisrtative for mutual benefit |
AP Human Geography Chapter 8 vocab
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