AP Flashcards

8582638687	Balance of power	Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.	0
8582638688	Boundary	An invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory	1
8582638689	City state	A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland	2
8582638690	Colonialism	Attempt by one country to establish settlements	3
8582638691	Colony	A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.	4
8582638692	Compact state	A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly	5
8582638693	Elongated state	A state with a long, narrow shape	6
8582638694	Federal state	An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.	7
8582638695	Fragmented state	A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory	8
8582638696	Frontier	A zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control.	9
8582638697	Gerrymandering	Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.	10
8582638698	Imperialism	Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society.	11
8582638699	Landlocked state	A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea	12
8582638700	Microstate	A state that encompasses a very small land area.	13
8582638701	Perforated State	a state that completely surrounds another one	14
8582638702	Prorupted state	An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension	15
8582638703	Sovereignty	Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states	16
8582638704	State	An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government	17
8582638705	Unitary state	Internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials	18