AP Flashcards

5999470294	Annexation	Legally adding land area to a city in the united states, or legally adding land area to a country in the world	0
5999470295	Antarctica	Largest land mass in the world, not part of a sovereign state	1
5999470296	Apartheid	Lawa previously in south Africa that separate different races into different geographic area's	2
5999470297	Balkanization	A small geographic area that could not be organized into a larger stay due to conflicting ethnicities	3
5999470299	Definitional disputes	Focus on the legal language of the treaty for the boundary	4
5999470300	Locational disputes	Is when the definition is not in dispute but the interpretation is	5
5999470301	Operational disputes	Is it a dispute of how a border should function	6
5999470302	Allocations disputes	Occurs over a resource on a boundary between two countries	7
5999470303	Antecedent origin	Is how the boundry evolves over time	8
5999470304	Subsequent origin	A boundary that was created before today's cultural landscape	9
5999470305	Superimposed origin	Are created through long-term processes	10
5999470306	Relic origin	Forest and inhabitants to solve a problem or conflict	11
5999470307	Definition process	Through a treaty or legal documents that's longitude and latitude	12
5999470308	Delimitation process	Drawing the boundary on a map	13
5999470309	Demarcation process	The boundry using steel po	14
5999470310	Natural physical type	A physical environment is used as a boundary	15
5999470311	Ethnographic/ cultural type	Is used when cultural divides in region and is used as a reference to create a boundary	16
5999470312	Geometric type	Boundry drawn by a grid system	17
5999470313	Buffer state	A state created between two warring or hostile regions to ease tensions between the two bordering regions	18
5999470314	Capital	Something that is owed which provides ongoing services and in the national account or to firms it's made of durable investment good normally sound and units of money	19
5999470315	Centrifugal	Moving or directed away from a center or axis	20
5999470316	Centripetal	And attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support from a state	21
5999470317	City-state	Sovereign state comprising a city and immediate hinterland	22
5999470318	Colonialism	Attacked by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic and cultural principles and another territory	23
5999670738	Confederation	A group of empowered states or communities usually created by the treaty but often later adopting a common constitution	24
5999670739	Conference of Berlin	Regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the new imperialism. And coincided with Germany set in emergence as an imperial power	25
5999670740	Core/perihery	Based on the notation that as one region or state expands in economic prosperity it must in the fridge is nearby to ensure I'm going economic and political success	26
5999670741	Decolonization	Refers to the undoing of colonization, the establishment of governance or authority through the creation of settlements by another country	27
5999670742	Devolution	Granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at national regional or local level	28
5999670743	Domino theory	If one land in a region came under the influence of communism, the surrounding hundred would follow a domino effect	29
5999670744	Exclusive economic zone	A sea zone over which a State has special rights over the exploration and use of marine resources	30
5999670745	Electoral regions	Regions that hold seats in parliament or Congress	31
5999670746	Enclave	Country are part of the country mostly surrounded by the territory of another country	32
5999670747	Exclave	Portion of a state that is completely surrounded by another state this is a significant because conflict may arise in this region of a state	33
5999670748	Ethnic conflict	A war between ethnic groups often as a result of ethnic nationalism	34
5999670749	European Union	A political and economic in the community of 27 member states with supranational an intergovernmental features located in zero	35
5999670750	Federal	An international organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government this model can be seen in the US. The idea of Devolution plays as well because a lot of power has been Devolved to local government like in the US	36
5999670751	Forward capital	Moving a nations capital to another area within the state to make a statement or create economic growth	37
5999802764	Frontier	A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control	38
5999670752	Geopolitics	The study that analyzes geography and social science with reference to spatial politics And patterns at various scales	39
5999670753	Gerrymander	Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpThe study that analyzes geography and social science with reference to spatial politics And patterns at various scalesose of benefiting the party in power	40
5999670754	Global commons	It means that no one person or state may own or control a certain	41
5999670755	Heartland/rimland	Refers to the central areas of a country	42
5999670756	Immigrant states	A state which has inherited a large amount of immigrants	43
5999670757	International organizations	Organization with international membership scope or presence	44
5999670758	Iron curtain	Symbolic, ideological and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of world war two until the end of the Cold War roughly 1945 to 1991	45
5999670759	Irredentism	The position that a state should be annexed because of ethnicity of prior historical possession	46
5999670760	Israel/Palestine	This region has taken center stage in the real of international politics	47
5999670761	Landlock	A country with no direct access to sea or ocean	48
5999670762	Law of the sea	The law set fourth in UNCLOS. The boundaries for territorial waters to international waters it's also created that eez	49
5999670763	Lebanon	Held in the ottoman empire for most of history it was ceded to the French after World War I, given independence in 1941	50
6000419467	Manifest destiny	The believe that it is the God-given right of a country or people that have a job have same then not get under their control	51
6000419468	Median-line principle	Way to divide and create boundaries by placing it at the midpoint between two places	52
6000419469	Microstate	A state has a very small land area and population	53
6000419470	Mini state	An indepent country that is very small in size and population	54
6000419471	Nation	Homogenous ethnic group	55
6000419472	National iconography	A study of the national icon such as paintings or even sterotypes that characterize a country or nationality	56
6000456895	Nation state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality	57
6000456896	Nunavut	The most north providence of Canada	58
6000606925	Reappointionment	The process on how the house of representives seata are reassigned among states based off population change	59
6000606926	Regionalism	The process of dividing something up by regions according to their similarities in specific topics	60
6000751127	Religious conflict	This is conflict between two religiona	61
6000751128	Reunification	Act of coming together	62
6000751129	Satellite state	A political term that refers to the country which is formally independent but under heavy influence or control by another country	63
6000751130	Self-determination	the ability of a Goverment to determine their own course of their own free will	64
6000751131	Shatterbelt	An area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values	65
6000751132	Sovereignty	Principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social economic and political matters should rest with the legitmate rulers of independent states	66
6000751133	State	Has a defined territory a permanent population of government is recognized by other states	67
6000751134	Stateless ethnic group	Groups with no such state of inhabitiance	68
6000751135	Stateless nation	A nation that doesnt fall under any state	69
6000751136	Suffrage	The right to vote	70
6000751137	Supranationalism	Venture of two or more states involving formal economic political and cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives	71
6000751138	Territorial disputes	Any dispute over land ownership	72
6002862986	Territorial morphology	Compact Distance from center to outside border is close to equidistant Fragmented Broken into seperate pieces	73
6002862987	Territoriality	A fundamental aspect of human behavior refers to the need to lay claim to the space is the occupied and things it on relates to the needs of self identity and freedom of choice	74
6002862988	Theocracy	A state whose government is either leave to be divinely guided or state under the control of a group of religious leaders	75
6002862989	Treaty ports	Cities open to foreign residents as a result of the first treaties between the Qing empire or fortune signatories	76
6002862990	UNCLOS	1994 Constitution for the ocean to protect resources	77
6002862991	Unitary	And internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials	78
6002862992	USSR collapse	The primary causes were political and economic and they were result cultural of war	79
6002862993	Womens enfranchised	Womens right to vote	80