Ap Flashcards

8945038553	Annexation	The action of annexing something especially territory	0
8945038554	Apartheid	A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on ground of race	1
8945038555	Balkanization	Divide into smaller mutually hostile states or groups	2
8945038556	City-State	A region controlled by a city and that has sovereignty	3
8945038557	Confederation	Association of sovereign states by a treaty or agreement; deals with issues such as defense, foreign affairs, trade, and a common currency	4
8945038558	Core	Countries that have high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a congruence of trade flows	5
8945038559	Devolution	The process of declining from higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality	6
8945038560	EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone)	An area of coastal water and sea bed within s certain distance of a countries coastline	7
8945038561	Enclave	A portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct	8
8945038562	Forward capital	A relocated capital city usually because of either economic or strategic reasons	9
8945038563	Iron Curtain	Symbolic, ideological, and physical boundary dividing Europe into two seperate areas	10
8945038564	Irredentism	The position that a state should be annexed because of ethnicity of prior historical possession	11
8945038565	Reappointionment	The process on how House of Representative seats are reassigned among states to reflect population changes	12
8945038566	Sovereignty	Government free from external control	13
8945038567	Territoriality	An aspect of human behavior and refers to the need to kay claim to the spaces we occupy and the things we oen	14
8950997676	Shatterbelt	A region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces	15