Unit 4 book quiz Flashcards
Political geography
a branch of human geography concerned with the spatial analysis of political systems
Peace of Westphalia
recognized the rights of rulers within defined territories
how many independent states are their
roughly 200
political map
shows the spatial organization of the countries and territories on the entire globe at a given point in time
what country was primarily changed after WWII
Africa
what are most modern states?
independent
who is Greenland owned by
denmark
what are 2 unincorporated territories of the U.S?
Guam and Puerto Rico
what do the Cornish people want
for the Cornish nation to be an independent cornwall
In Finland the Sami are….
recognized as a nation of indigenous people that have the right to maintain and develop
nation-state
a country that consists of mostly one ethnic group
why can’t contemporary states be defined as nation-states
because globalization and the increasing mobility of people challenge the concept
what are the contemporary states defined a nation-states
Iceland
Finland
Japan
Slovenia
Poland
North and South Korea
nationalism
sense of belonging to and self identifying with a national culture
stateless nation
is an ethnic group or nation that does not process its own state and is not the majority population in any nationstate
what are the British Virgin Island a territory of
United Kingdom
how have the Kurds sought independence
military and political means
what is the recognized ethnic minority in the UK?
the cornish people
what are individual Native American groups considered
Nations
Nation
a community of people bound to a homeland and processing a common identity based on shared cultural traits such as language, ethnicity and religion
how many people identify as Kurds
30 -45 million people
the former Yugoslavia
the citizens did not identify themselves as Yugoslavs with a distinct national identity but rather as Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and other ethnic groups
what is one of the best known state-less nations
the Kurds
what Native American reservation in the U.S are autonomous
Navajo, Hopi reservation, Cherokee Nation, and Choctaw Nation
what is Kurdistan now divided among
Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey
what state in Spain has a semi-autonomous government
Catalonia
multinational states
a country containing multiple national ethnic and religious groups within its boundaries
what are semi-autonomous regions within the United Kingdom?
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland
what is a semi-autonomous Danish territory?
Greenland
core area
the portion of a country that contains its economic, political, intellectual, and cultural focus.
autonomous region
a country that has a degree of self-government
semiautonomous region
a country that has some degree of but not complete self-government
who is responsible for Greenland foreign affairs and defense policy
Copenhagen, Denmark’s capital
self-determination
a nation’s ability to determine its own statehood and form its own allegiances and government:
what was the American Revolution partly the result of
colonists desire to form their own state, to chose their own government and to be recognized as a sovereign state
what happened during the 19th century
the idea of self-determination spread throughout Europe and overseas territories that England, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal had colonized
when was the United Nations created
1945
what did the Urban power center become
the national capital and the main center of commerce, culture, and industry
where did France expand from
a small area around the present capital city of Paris to its current much larger territory
what was Moscow like in 1300
it was a small concentrated settlement that gradually extended its political control over an increasing amount of territory
what countries are more stable
countries that diffused from core areas
what are two examples of countries without political core areas?
Belgium and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
what was U.S expansion in the 19th century justified by
the doctrine of manifest destiny the belief that the Pacific shoreline was the growing country predestined western border
geographer John Agnew argued that sovereignty is
mistakenly equated with territory and assumed to be equally distributed among states
escarpments
abrupt slopes that break up the general continuity of the terrain
effective sovereignty
the idea that the power of a state to enforce its sovereignty may extend beyond its territory and varies over and from country to country
when does imperialism begin
when a wealthy country perceives a need for a critical natural resource, and its ends in the colonialization and exploitation of a critical raw material, the indigenous people or both
what does colonialism refer to
the centuries-long process of European countries competing among themselves to conquer and control other peoples and their territories across the world
