Unit 4 vocab

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to manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them

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administer

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a border established before an area becomes heavily settled

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antecedent boundary

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having the authority tog over territories independently of the national government; for example, by having a separate currency

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autonomous

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a narrow strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass

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choke point

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the practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories

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colonialism

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sharing authority

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concurrent

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a type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences http. exist within a cultural landscape, separating groups that have distinct languages, religions, ethnicities or other traits

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consequent boundary

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the explicitly state in legally binding documentations such as the treaty where boundaries such as natural features or lines of latitude or longitude

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defined/geometric boundary

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to draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement

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delimit

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to place physical objects such as stones, pillows, walls or fences to indicate where boundary exists

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demacrate

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the process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorties within its borders

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devolution

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cost reductions that occur when production rises

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economies of scale

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a set of people called electors who are chosen to elect the president of the United States

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electoral college

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the process by which the state attacks an ethnic group and tries to eliminate it through expulsion, imprisonment or killing

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ethnic cleansing

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the process by which people of a particular ethnicity in a multinational state identify more strongly as members there ethnic group than as citizens of the state

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ethnic seperatism

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the process by which the people of a country identify as having one common ethnicity, religious belief, and language creating a sense of pride and identity that is ties to the territory; also called ethnic nationalism

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ethnonationlism

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an area that extends 200 nautical miles from a states coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ

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exclusive economis zone (EEZ)

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the organization of a state in which power is shared between the federal government and its internal region units

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federal state

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a mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a straight line arc between two pointes

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geometric boundary

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the drawing of a legislative boundaries to give one political party an advantage in elections

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gerrymandering

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the push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or people

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imperalism

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attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation

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irredentism

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an election district in which the majority of voters are members of an ethnic or racial minority

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majority-minority distrct

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a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

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multi national state

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people who share a cultural or ethnic background but line in more than one country

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multi state nation

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a cultural entity made up of a people who have forges a common identity through shared language, religion, heritage or ethnicity often all four of these

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nation

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a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who considered themselves to be a nation

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nation state

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the use of economic political cultural or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies

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neo colonialism

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the study of the ways in which the world is organized as. reflection of the power different groups hold over territory

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political geography

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the redistribution of representatives seats among states based on shifts in population

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reapportionment

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he redrawing of internal territorial and political boundaries

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redistricting

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a former boundary that no longer has an official function

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relic boundary

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the right of all people to choose their own political status

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self determination

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describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently form the national government

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semi autonomous

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a region where states form hone dn break up because of on going, sometimes violent, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interest of more powerful outside of the states

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shatterbelt

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the right of the government to control and determine what happens within its borders

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sovereignty

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a group of people united by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state

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stateless nation

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a border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established

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subsequent boundary

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a boarder drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force

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super imposed boundary

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an alliance of the three or more states that work together in pursuit of common goals or to address an issue or challenge

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supernatural organization

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the attempt to influence r control of people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their cultures, and their economic systems to the land

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territonatlity

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an organization of a state in which power is concentrated in a central government

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unitary state

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is a comprehensive legal framework that governs the use and protection of the world's oceans, including navigation, maritime zones, resource management, and marine environmental protection

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United Nations Convention on the Laws of the Sea (UNLCOS)

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a politically organized independent territory with a government defined borders and a permanent population; a country

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state