wotd Flashcards
(21 cards)
What is Animism?
Belief that objects, such as plants and stones, or natural events, like thunderstorms and earthquakes, have a discrete spirit and life.
What is a Sect?
A relatively small group that has broken away from an established denomination.
What is Self-determination?
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
What is a Multinational state?
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.
What is a State?
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
What is a Nation-state?
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into nationality.
What is Territoriality?
A country’s sense of property and attachment toward its territory, as expressed by its determination to keep it inviolable and strongly defended.
What are Chokepoints?
Strategic, narrow passages that connect two larger areas to one another.
What is Neocolonialism?
Control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures.
What is a Physical Boundary?
A boundary based on the geographical features of the Earth’s surface.
What is a Cultural Boundary?
The geographical term for the border between two different ethnic, linguistic, and religious groups.
What is a Geometric Boundary?
A boundary created by using lines of latitude and longitude and their associated arcs.
What is Gerrymandering?
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
What is Redistricting?
The drawing of a new electoral district boundary lines in response to population changes.
What is a Unitary State?
A state where laws are administered uniformly by one central government.
What is a Federal State?
A country where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other smaller, regional authorities.
What is terrorism?
The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
What is irredentism?
A political movement that is strongly tied to nationalism.
What is ethnonationalism?
A form of nationalism in which the ‘nation’ is defined in terms of ethnicity.
What is a centrifugal force?
Forces or attitudes that tend to divide a state.
What is a centripetal force?
A force used to unify a state (provide stability, strengthen, bind together, create solidarity).
