Unit 4, Part 2 Vocabulary Selection

Question 1

Anocracy

Answer 1

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types.

Question 2

Autocracy

Answer 2

A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people.

Question 3

Balance of power

Answer 3

A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries.

Question 4

Boundary

Answer 4

An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.

Question 5

City-state

Answer 5

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

Question 6

Colonialism

Answer 6

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

Question 7

Colony

Answer 7

A territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent.

Question 8

Compact state

Answer 8

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly.

Question 9

Delineation

Answer 9

When we actually draw the lines on a map.

Question 10

Demarcation

Answer 10

When we go out into the landscape and show where the boundary is.

Question 11

Delimitation

Answer 11

The translation of the written terms of a boundary treaty (the definition) into an official cartographic representation.

Question 12

Democracy

Answer 12

A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.

Question 13

Elongated state

Answer 13

A state with a long, narrow shape.

Question 14

Federal state

Answer 14

An internal organization of a state that allocates strong power to units of local government.

Question 15

Fragmented state

Answer 15

A state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory.

Question 16

Frontier

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Gerrymandering

Answer 17

The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.

Question 18

Landlocked state

Answer 18

A state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea.

Question 19

Microstate

Answer 19

A state that encompasses a very small land area.

Question 20

Multiethnic state

Answer 20

A state that contains more than one ethnicity.

Question 21

Multinational state

Answer 21

A 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.

Question 22

Nation-state

Answer 22

A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.

Question 23

Perforated state

Answer 23

A state that completely surrounds another one.

Question 24

Prorupted state

Answer 24

An otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension.

Question 25

Self-determination

Answer 25

The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.

Question 26

Sovereignty

Answer 26

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

Question 27

State

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Terrorism

Answer 28

The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take.

Question 29

Unitary state

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Autonomous or semi-autonomous region

Answer 30

Regions of a country with special economic or political privileges. Examples: most of China, Tibet, Hong Kong.

Question 31

Enclave

Answer 31

An "entity" inside of another.

Question 32

Exclave

Answer 32

Land outside of its country.

Question 33

Satellite state

Answer 33

States under the economical and political influence of another.

Question 34

Compact state

Answer 34

Equidistant, easy to govern, homogenous.

Question 35

Elongated state

Answer 35

Skinny or rectangular, diverse = conflict?

Question 36

Fragmented state

Answer 36

Countries or exclaves, hard to govern.

Question 37

Perforated state

Answer 37

A country has a country in it.

Question 38

Prorupted state

Answer 38

"Arm" or extension.

Question 39

Land-based boundaries

Answer 39

Antecedent/physical

Question 40

Subsequent boundaries

Answer 40

Cultural; established after the settlement in the area.

Question 41

Superimposed boundaries

Answer 41

Forced upon natives by colonizers.

Question 42

Relic boundaries

Answer 42

No longer functions but can still be detected on the cultural landscape.

Question 43

Geometric boundaries

Answer 43

Based on longtude/latitude; drawn using straight lines.

Question 44

Maritime boundaries

Answer 44

Everyone can use it, no one governs.

Question 45

Unitary system

Answer 45

All laws/policies are made at national level.

Question 46

Federal system

Answer 46

National + state government makes decisions.

Question 47

Confederal state

Answer 47

Local/state government have more authority. National government power is weak and limited.

Question 48

Electoral geography

Answer 48

Voting boundaries/does not match countries.

Question 49

Census

Answer 49

Every 10 years; pull of population.

Question 50

Reapportionment

Answer 50

Process by which representative districts are switched according to population shifts.

Question 51

Redistricting

Answer 51

The drawing of new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes.

Question 52

Irredentism

Answer 52

A country should and wants to control the land that they are ethnically or historically related to.

Question 53

Supranational organizations

Answer 53

A venture involving three or more states to promote shared objectives of political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation.

Question 54

Supranationalism

Answer 54

Countries come together for common goal/purpose.

Question 55

Devolution

Answer 55

Movement of power from central government to regional governments within the state.

Question 56

Ethnic separatism

Answer 56

When a person or group starts to identify more as their own ethnic group then as a citizen of the state.