AP Flashcards

6634163985	political geography	the study of human political organization of the Earth at various geographic levels	0
6634211091	three scales	supranational, national/country, subnational	1
6634241916	territoriality	creating ownership over a defined space	2
6634272127	personal space	the area we claim as our own territory into which others may not enter without permission	3
6634387807	sovereignty	control a place has over the people and territory within its boundaries	4
6634416800	state	how political geographers refer to countries	5
6634425990	state	political unit with a permanent population, territorial boundaries that are recognized by other states, effective government, working economy, sovereignty	6
6634443663	nation	a group of people who share a common culture and identify as a cohesive group (language, religion, shared history, and territory make it cohesive)	7
6634462474	ethnonational conflict	conflict occurring between different nations	8
6634467158	multinational state	a state (or country) that includes more than one nation within it's borders	9
6634474576	nation state	a state with only one nation in its borders	10
6634494882	stateless nation	when a nation does not have a territory to call its own	11
6634626616	ethnonationalism	emotional attachment to one's nation that occurs when a minority nation within a state feels different from the rest	12
6634638645	irredentism	a movement by a nation to reunite its parts when they have spread across other borders	13
6634651549	buffer zone	exists when two or more countries sit between two larger countries in conflict	14
6634748502	shatterbelts	a state or group of states that exists within a sphere of competition between larger states and is often culturally, economically, and politically fragmented and splintered	15
6635114435	geometric	straight line boundaries that do to relate to the cultural or physical features of the territories involved	16
6635125236	physical	boundaries that separate territory by features in the landscape	17
6635131268	cultural	boundaries that mark changes in landscape, like religion or language	18
6635140778	frontiers	regions where boundaries are very thinly or weakly developed, zones where territoriality is unclear and not well established	19
6635152252	antecedent	boundaries that existed before human cultures developed into their current forms	20
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