AP Human Geography Chapter 8 vocab

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