Chapter 5

Question 1

Relic Boundary

Answer 1

One that not longer functions but can still be detected on the cultural landscape

Question 2

Antecedent Boundary

Answer 2

Existed before the present settlement. These are often based on land forms such as mountains and rivers.

Question 3

Superimposed boundaries

Answer 3

Drawn on an area by a conquering or colonizing power that ignored existing cultural patterns

Question 4

Subsequent boundaries

Answer 4

Established after the settlement in an area. It changes as the cultural landscape changes and is draw to accommodate developments due to a certain event, such as war.

Question 5

Balkanization

Answer 5

Divisions of a place or country into several small political units, linguistic, religious, or economic difference.

Question 6

Consequent boundaries

Answer 6

Drawn in order to separate groups based on ethnic, linguistic, religious, or economic differences.

Question 7

Political boundary

Answer 7

Study of the political organization of the world

Question 8

State

Answer 8

Politically organized territory arose in early modern Europe as a system of political unity came into being with fixed, distinct boundaries.

Question 9

Sovereignty

Answer 9

Having a recognized right to control a territory both politically and military

Question 10

Mercantilism

Answer 10

Emerging political state was accompanied by this, which led to the accumulation of wealth through plunder, colonization, and the protection of home industries and foreign market

Question 11

Nation

Answer 11

This term was originally meant to refer to a group of people who think of themselves as one based on a sense of shared culture and history, and who seek some degree of political-territorial autonomy.

Question 12

Nation State

Answer 12

This is a politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space.

Question 13

Multi state nation

Answer 13

When a nation stretches across borders and across states, the nation is called blank

Question 14

Devolution

Answer 14

Breaking up a state into smaller unified or the passing of power from central to lower governments

Question 15

Terrorism

Answer 15

Violence organized by a group that is aimed at civilians to incite terror for political reasons

Question 16

Irredentism

Answer 16

Movement by a nation to unite other parts of its nation that are spread over other borders

Question 17

Central government

Answer 17

This government makes some laws but most laws are passed at the state level

Question 18

World systems theory

Answer 18

Proponents of this theory view the world as much more than the sum total of the world’s states.

Question 19

Commodification

Answer 19

The process of placing a price on a good, service, or idea and then buying, selling, and trading that item.

Question 20

Core

Answer 20

where one is most likely to find higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology

Question 21

Peripheral

Answer 21

processes associated with a more marginal position in the world economy

Question 22

Semi peripheral

Answer 22

places where core and periphery processes are both occurring

Question 23

Centripetal

Answer 23

Forces within the state that unify people

Question 24

Centrifugal

Answer 24

Forces within the state that divide people

Question 25

Unitary government

Answer 25

centralized states whose administrative framework is designed to ensure the central government’s authority over all of the state.

Question 26

Federal System

Answer 26

the regions have much control over government policies and funds, and in a weak federal system, the central government retains a significant measure of power.

Question 27

Reapportionment

Answer 27

process by which districts are moved according to population shifts so that each district has about the same number of people

Question 28

Deterritorialization

Answer 28

globalization, networked communities, etc. undermine the state’s traditional territorial authority

Question 29

Reterritorialization

Answer 29

The state is moving to solidify control over its territory