Unit 4

Question 1

Laws (no longer in affect) in South Africa that physically separated different races into different geographic areas.

Answer 1

Apartheid

Question 2

Condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.

Answer 2

Balance of Power

Question 3

Process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among it’s ethnicities.

Answer 3

Balkanization

Question 4

A process by which real estate agents convince white property owners to sell their houses at low prices out of fear that persons of color will soon move into the neighborhood.

Answer 4

Blockbusting

Question 5

Invisible line the marks the extent of a states territory.

Answer 5

Boundary

Question 6

An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state.

Answer 6

Centripetal Force

Question 7

A sovereign state comprising a city and it’s immediate hinterland.

Answer 7

City-State

Question 8

A process in which a more powerful ethnic group forcibly removes a less powerful one in order to create an ethnically homogeneous region.

Answer 8

Ethnic Cleansing

Question 9

Identity with a group of people that share distinct physical and mental traits as a product of common heredity and cultural traditions.

Answer 9

Ethnicity

Question 10

An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government.

Answer 10

Federal State

Question 11

A zone separating Z states in which neither state exercises political control.

Answer 11

Frontier

Question 12

To divide (a geographic area) into voting districts so as to give unfair advantage to one party in elections.

Answer 12

Gerrymandering

Question 13

Control of territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous group.

Answer 13

Imperialism

Question 14

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

Answer 14

Microstate

Question 15

A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

Answer 15

Multiethnic State

Question 16

A state containing Z or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities.

Answer 16

Multinational State

Question 17

Loyalty and devotion to a particular nationality.

Answer 17

Nationalism

Question 18

Identification with a group of people who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular place as a result of being born there.

Answer 18

Nationality

Question 19

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality.

Answer 19

Nation-State

Question 20

Identification with a group of people descended from a common ancestor.

Answer 20

Race

Question 21

The belief that race is the Primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.

Answer 21

Racism

Question 22

A person who subscribes to the beliefs of racism.

Answer 22

Racist

Question 23

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Answer 23

Self-determination

Question 24

A person who works fields rented from a landowner and pays the rent and repays loans by turning over to the landowner a share of the crops.

Answer 24

Sharecropper

Question 25

An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.

Answer 25

State

Question 26

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves, from Africa to Caribbean Islands, molasses from the caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

Answer 26

Triangular Slave Trade

Question 27

An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

Answer 27

Unitary State

Question 28

The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation.

Answer 28

Annexation

Question 29

A (small) neutral state between two rival powers.

Answer 29

Buffer State

Question 30

An Attitude the tends to spread the people farther away from the center (not unifying).

Answer 30

Centrifugal Forces

Question 31

The act of forming an alliance of confederation.

Answer 31

Confederation

Question 32

A form of government in which the people elect the leaders.

Answer 32

Democracy

Question 33

A portion of territory of one state completely surrounded by territory of another of others, as viewed by the home territory.

Answer 33

Exclave

Question 34

A symbolic relocation of a capital city to a geographically of demographically peripheral location, may be for either economic or strategic reasons.

Answer 34

Forward Capital

Question 35

The study of how geography and economics have influence on politics.

Answer 35

Geopolitic

Question 36

The earth's unowned Natural resources.

Answer 36

Global Commons

Question 37

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.

Answer 37

Globalization

Question 38

Hypothesis proposed by Halford Mckinder that held that any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.

Answer 38

Heartland Theory

Question 39

The national barrier separating the soviet and the West prior tho the decline of communism.

Answer 39

Iron Curtain

Question 40

The doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which the are Ethnically or historically related.

Answer 40

Irredentism

Question 41

Government ruled by one person, usually king of queen.

Answer 41

Monarchy

Question 42

A group of people who share a common culture and Identify as a cohesive group.

Answer 42

Nation

Question 43

A new apportionment (a new apportionment of congressional seats in USA)

Answer 43

Reapportionment

Question 44

Loyalty to the interests of a particular region.

Answer 44

Regionalism

Question 45

A state in which supreme power is held by the people and, their elected representatives, and elect a president.

Answer 45

Republic

Question 46

The act of coming together.

Answer 46

Reunification

Question 47

A political theory that holds that control of Eurasia and Africa is achieved via control of the countries bordering the Soviet Union.

Answer 47

Rimland Theory

Question 48

Countries controlled by another, more powerful state.

Answer 48

Satellite State

Question 49

Is a type of multinational organization where negotiated power is delegated to an authority by governments of member states.

Answer 49

Supranational Organization

Question 50

The study of states' shapes and their effects.

Answer 50

Territorial Morphology

Question 51

Government ruled of religious elite (religious leader).

Answer 51

Theocracy

Question 52

The transfer or delegation of power to lower levels (central government, to local government)

Answer 52

Devolution

Question 53

The ability of state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Answer 53

Sovereighty