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Chp. 8 Political Geo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Case study 1 : what two countries is it about ? and what is the prob ? | France and Germany , boundries |
| what is a state ? | a country |
| what is sovereignty ? | independence from control of it internal affairs |
| what is a non soverign state | French Guinea |
| where are there arguments about states ? | korea, china,polar region |
| who divied korea into N and S ? | The US and SU |
| why did korea divison become permant | the two new sections established new gov su (North) - democratic peoples republic of korea US ( south) republic of korea |
| who invaded who in korea ? | North to the south |
| what are the the states in korea trying to do ? | reunite |
| is taiwan a sovergin state ? | most states consider it to be except china and rose a civil war |
| what gov is china and taiwan ? | Taiwan became nationalist and us supported them China is communist |
| What is the most populous state not in the united nation | taiwann |
| what are some states that claim Anarctica? | argentina,australia,chile, france, new zealand, norway. the UK |
| what does the anartic treaty say ? | the frame work for managing anarctica and is allowed for scienftic research |
| what are microstates ? | states with very small land areas |
| how was the earth divied inot ? | city states empires etc |
| where can the development of states be traced to ? | fertile crescent making an arc between the persian gulf and mediterranean sea |
| what was the first state that was then divied into city states | Mesopotanian with wall boundraies |
| when did political unity reached its height ? | with the establishment of the Roman empire with 38 provinces and ruling europe N africa and middle east |
| what happened after roman falls | kings started ruiling estates |
| what is a colony ? | a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state |
| what do the sovereign states control in colonies ? | millatary or internal affairs |
| what is colonialism | effort by one countary to establish settlements in a terriory to impose principles on the area |
| what where the 3 reason for europe colonialism | God,gold and glory promote christianity extract resources and have power |
| what is imperialism and what is a example ? | to control of a territory already occupied, africa and asia |
| what did france colonialsm do ? | make them all the same |
| what did british coloniallsim do ? | make them all diffrent |
| How many colonies still exist ? | 43 puerto rico most populous and pitcarin least populous |
| whats do states shape affect ? | controls lenght of its boundaries with other states, communication and conflict with neighbros and a unique idenity and centriptal force |
| What are the five basic shapes ? | compact, elongated prorupted, perfortated and fragmented |
| describe compact staes | small and a circle captial in the middle good for small states easier to communicate like bolivia |
| describe elongated states ? | long narrow suffer from poor internal communication like chile |
| describe proupted states ? | a compact state with an extension used to provied a state with a resource or two seprate 2 countries like myanmar |
| describe perforated states | a state that completly surrounds another one in south africa alot like lesotho |
| describe fragmented states ? | includes several discontinous pices like us or malaysia |
| what are the 2 kinds of fragmented stAtes | by water or Indonesia or by interving states like angola |
| what are landlocks states and where is most common ? | surronded by other countries most common in africa |
| Why are landlocked states more common in africa | europe made railroads to connect the interior africa and old railroads created boundaries |
| What are the steaps to make a boundary | 1.define the boundary with a treaty 2.draw it on a map 3.mark boundraies on the ground 4. determane how it will be mantained |
| what are the two types of boundary | physical and cultural |
| what are the disputes for physical boundaries ? | the boundaries can change |
| what is a definitional boundary disputes | focus on legal boundary agreement |
| what is locational boundary disputes | center on where it is |
| what are operational boundary disputes | way of how the boundarie functions |
| what are allocational boundary disputes | over resources |
| describe desert boundaries | cant divied 2 states hard to cross common in africa and asia |
| describe mt boundaries | difficult to cross and permanent happens in agregentina and chile with the andes mts crest cannot be detrmined |
| describe water boundaries | they can chnage most commonly used good protectio visable |
| what are water boundaries in East africa | lake alberta seprate the congo, lake victoria seprate kenya, zambia, Burundi lake mwera, lake malawi |
| what is the law of sea | standardized the territorial limits for states at 12 nautical miles and out 400 to fish |
| what are the most common cultural boundaries ? | geometric and ethnic |
| What are geometric boundaries | straight lines boundaries |
| what countrires have geometric boundarie | us and canada based on a treaty with britian and us and chad and lybia |
| What are states seprated by reliigous boundaroes | india ( into hindu and muslim) ireland north is for is protestand rest is catholic |
| where are language boundaries found ? and why ? | in europe like england,france,portugal and spain. after WW2 they made new boundaries seprating languages |
| where were the similar slavic languages placed ? the czec and slovaks | in yugoslavia and they were placed in czechoslavkia but cant live together |
| what is the cyprus green line boundary ? | to seprate the greeks and turkish on cyprus island ( more greeks and the wanted to rule ) |
| what is a frontier | a zone where no state exerciss complete political control where a boundary is invisible but provied an area of separation |
| where are frontier used | in saudi arabia like kuwait seprated by a fronteir called the neutural zone or North and south Korea |
| what are boundaries inside states used for | drawn to seprate diffrent culture or provide advantage to political party |
| what is a unitary state ? | places most power in the central gov |
| what is a federal state ? | allocates strong power to units of local gov within the countary |
| where does unitary state work best ? | in nation states with few internal cultural diffrences require lots off cuminication like europe |
| what is frances gov ? | unitary with 96 deparmetns 1 powerful prefet and 36,686 communes but has granted legal powers to only deparments and communes |
| why did poland switch to fedral and what system did they choose | because the national gov wasnt communist anymore and the 3 tier system with provinces, counties,and municipalities |
| what is electoral geography | boundaries seprating legislative districts made every 10 years by politicans |
| why are they redrawn ( electoral boundaries ) | to improve chances of its supporters |
| what is gerrymandering | process of redrawing legislative boundaries to benifit partys made by elbride gerry illegal |
| what are the 3 forms of gerrymandaring | wasted,excess,and stacked vote |
| wasted vote is | spreads opposition supporters across many districs but in mo=inority (try winning) |
| excess vote is ? | concentrates opposition supportes in few districts (still will win) |
| what is stacked vote | links distant areas of like minded voters through oddl shaped boundaries ( more seprated equally ) |
| why were global and regional orginazations made | to prevent 3rd world war and to prevent countries from foregin attacks |
| what is the largest to supranational | united nations |
| when was the UN made and why | at the end or WW1 with 49 states and made to prevent other wars |
| what did the UN replace | replaced the league of nations another orginanization made by presdient willson but usa didnt join |
| what are UN members allowed to do | to vote to establish a peace keeping force or millitary |
| what are the 5 permamnet members of the security concil | china france russia uk usa |
| the world dividing into milltary alliances resulted in ? | in two superpowers the Us and SU |
| when were the superpowers made | during the cold war because of power |
| what were the superpowers before | austria france germany italy japan russia uk and us |
| where did the SU send armies to ? | to hungary czechoslovakia |
| where did US send armies ? | Dominican republic, grenada and Panama so the world remained allies |
| After WW2 most states joined what millitary groups | NATO ( us and SU ) or Warsaw pact ( communist) |
| hat were the 2 millitary groups made for | to mantain a bipolar balance in Europe |
| what was NATO objective | to prevent SU from overruning Germany |
| what was warsaws objective | to provied SU with a discoragment to have a 3rd german invasion |
| What is the African Union | made in 2002 to replace the african unity and promot economic |
| what was the african unity | it was made to seek end to colonialism |
| what were the diffrences in global power after there were more than 2 superpowers | 1. the most important elements of state power are ecnomic than millitary ike china,germany,and japan 2.the leading superpowersin not a single state but an economic union |
| what 3 states started the European Union ans what was it used for | Belgium netherlands and luxemborg and to heal westearn europe from WW2 |
| what 3 countries are trying to join the EU | croatia turkey and macedonia |
| what was the main task of the european union | to promote development within member states removed most barriers of free trade and balance power |
| what is terrorism | is a systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or gov into granting demands |
| what is the probelem with terrorism and political violence | hard to distinguish |
| who made al qaeda | osama bin ladan in 1990 to unite jihad fighters from afganistan and middle east |
| story on bin laden | went to afganistan to go against soviet army he then went to saudi arabia but wasnt allowed then to sudan but not allowed then back to afghanistan and he issued a decleration of war against the USA |
| how many are involved in al qaeda | unkown |
| how have air photos helped | pinpoiting targets diplomatic format deployment of opposite armies |
| what are the 3 types of devolution | ethnocutural, economic and spatial |
| ethnocultral | a state define themseleves diffrently culture wise like czechoslovakia |
| economic | combination of resources like catalonia with spain |
| spatial | Occur on borders like hawii |
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