AP Flashcards

8809853779	Anocracy	A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types	0
8809855714	Autocracy	A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people	1
8809858808	Balance of Power	A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries	2
8809861803	Boundary	An invisible line that marks the extent of a states territory	3
8809861804	City-state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside	4
8809866524	Colonialism	An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory	5
8809866525	Colony	A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent	6
8809866526	Compact state	A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly	7
8809869426	Democracy	A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office	8
8809869427	Elongated state	A state with a long, narrow shape	9
8809869428	Federal state	An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government	10
8809872325	Fragmented state	A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory	11
8809872326	Frontier	A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control	12
8809875160	Gerrymandering	The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power	13
8809875161	Landlocked state	A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea	14
8809877264	Microstate	A state that encompasses a very small land area	15
8809877265	Multi-ethnic state	A state that contains more than one ethnicity	16
8809879781	Multinational state	A state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities	17
8809879782	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality	18
8809882261	Perforated state	A state that completely surrounds another one	19
8809882262	Prorupted state	An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension	20
8809885824	Self-determination	The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves	21
8809885825	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states	22
8809888847	State	An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs	23
8809888848	Unitary state	An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials	24