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6052207048	Anocracy	A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather shares a mix of the two	0
6052207049	Autocracy	A country that is run by the interest of the ruler rather than the people	1
6052207050	balance of power	condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries	2
6052207051	boundary	invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory	3
6052207052	city-state	a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediate hinterland	4
6052207053	colonialism	attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory	5
6052207054	colony	a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent	6
6052207055	compact state	a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly	7
6052207056	democracy	A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office	8
6052207057	elongated state	A state with a long, narrow shape	9
6052207058	federal state	an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government	10
6052207059	fragmented state	a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory	11
6052207060	frontier	a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control	12
6052207061	gerrymandering	process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power	13
6052207062	landlocked state	a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea	14
6052207063	microstate	a state that encompasses a very small land area	15
6052207064	Multiethnic state	A state that contains more then one ethnicity	16
6052207065	multinational state	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
6052207066	Nation-state	A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been changed into a nationality	18
6052207067	perforated state	a state that completely surrounds another one	19
6052207068	prorupted state	an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension	20
6052207069	Self-determination	The concept that ethnicity have the right to govern themselves	21
6052207070	sovereignty	ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states	22
6052207071	state	an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs	23
6052207072	Terrorism	The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands	24
6052207073	unitary state	an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials	25
6052217198	Physical Boundary	coincide with significant features of the natural landscape; deserts, mountains, water (sea, rivers. lakes)	26
6052225796	Cultural Boundaries	follow the distribution of cultural characteristics; Geometric, ethnic	27
6052253681	Domino Theory	Used to describe one event will set off other events Communism: 1960-1980 Arab Spring	28
6052253682	EEZ	a sea zone prescribed by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea over which a state has special rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.	29
6052254421	Enclave	region develops their own ethnic identity (balkanization) Lesotho	30
6052258301	Exclave	A bounded territory that is part of a particular state but is separated from the territory of a different state. Alaska	31
6052259583	Fortified Boundary	When a state constructs a physical boundary to either keep people out or in. Examples= North and south Korea, Morocco and Spanish Sahara, Great wall of China(also Relict), Berlin Wall(also relict), US Mexico Border	32
6052259584	Heartland Theory	1904: sir halford mackinder Eastern Europe and central asia pivotal to world domination Did not account for water routes Technology, mongols took over on horse back, Horses are important	33
6052261599	Imperialism	One country exerts cultural or economic dominance over another	34
6052261600	Relic Boundary	A boundary that doesn't exist anymore but still has an impact on cultural landscape, Examples= West Germany Industrial & more wealthy and East Germany Agricultural, North and South Korea as well	35
6052263144	Rimland theory	1944: Nicholas Spielman (father of containment) Rimland would contain the Heartland via alliances Heartland controlled the land, Rimland controlled the sea	36
6052264130	Superimposed Boundary	Boundary created by another outside group	37