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If your not sure what answer should be entered, press the space bar and the next missing letter will be displayed. When you are all done, you should look back over all your answers and review the ones in red. These ones in red are the ones which you needed help on. Term: Definition: A sovereign territory, recognized as a country by other states under international law. A state has a defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by states. Term: TerritorialityDefinition: Sense of ownership and attachment to a territory. Term: Peace of Definition: Treaties negotiated in 1648 that formally recognized the of states. Term: Definition: The legal authority to have the last say over a . Under international law, states are sovereign. Term: Territorial Definition: Right of a to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states. Term: Definition: Physically taking over a territory and people and controlling the economy and . Term: Definition: A group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to each other and a common political goal. Term: Imagined Definition: A socially constructed identity that is imagined because the people in the group will never meet each other and believe they have a similarity and shared connection. Term: -stateDefinition: A nation (people) and a state (country) who the same borders. Term: Multinational Definition: State (country) with more than one (people). Term: Multistate Definition: Nation (people) that across states (countries). Term: Stateless Definition: A nation that does not have a . Term: wave of colonialismDefinition: From the late 1400s to 1850s, when Europeans colonized the and coastal Africa. Term: wave of colonialismDefinition: From the 1850s to 1960s, when Europeans colonized Africa and Asia in the context of the industrial . Term: -Systems TheoryDefinition: Theory originated by Immanuel Wallerstein and illuminated by his three-tier structure, proposing that social change in and economic wealth in the is inextricably linked to the core. Term: CapitalismDefinition: Economic system where people, corporations, and produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit. Term: CommodificationDefinition: Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or . Term: CoreDefinition: in the world economy where core processes dominate. Term: PeripheryDefinition: Places in the world economy where processes dominate. Term: Semi-peripheryDefinition: Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the . Term: Centripetal Definition: In nationalism, attributes of a nation that can be or manipulated to unite the nation, such as national iconography, patriotism, shared culture and history, or common religion or ideology. Term: Centrifugal Definition: In , attributes of a nation that can be activated or manipulated to divide the nation, such as unequal distribution of wealth, or religious, linguistic, ethnic, and ideological differences. Term: statesDefinition: A state that has a centralized government and that exercises power equally over all parts of the state. Term: Federal Definition: A state where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other , regional authorities. Term: Definition: Transfer of from central government to regional or local government within a state (country). Term: Definition: by the people where the people are sovereign and have the final say over what happens within a state. Term: Definition: Redistribution of representatives based on population change. For example, in the U.S. House of Representatives are reapportioned across states after each census before each state redistricts. Term: SplittingDefinition: A redistricting where a minority population is divided across districts to ensure the majority population controls each district (also called dilution). Term: -minority districtsDefinition: Electoral where the majority of the people in the district are from a minority group. Term: GerrymanderingDefinition: Manipulating electoral districts to give one political unfair advantage. Term: Definition: A plane that beneath the subsoil and into the airspace that legally divides two countries. Term: boundariesDefinition: Political boundaries defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a line or an arc. Term: -political boundariesDefinition: Political boundary defined by a prominent physical in the physical landscape, such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain range. Term: Heartland Definition: British geographer Halford Mackinder’s theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain strength to eventually dominate the world. Term: Definition: World order in which one state is in a of global dominance. Term: DeterritorializationDefinition: of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states (countries). Term: ReterritorializationDefinition: When a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, the popular culture to their local culture. Term: Supranational Definition: An organization of three or more states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. For example, the European Union is one such . Term: Definition: An early form of capitalism based on trading large quantities of goods, using gold and silver as . |
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