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AP Human Geography

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show 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 other states.  
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show Sense of ownership and attachment to a specific territory.  
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show Treaties negotiated in 1648 that formally recognized the sovereignty of states.  
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show The legal authority to have the last say over a territory. Under international law, states are sovereign.  
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show Right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states.  
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show Physically taking over a territory and people and controlling the economy and government.  
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Mercantilism   show
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show A group of people with a shared past and common future who relate to each other and share a common political goal.  
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show A socially constructed identity that is imagined because the people in the group will never meet each other and simply believe they have a similarity and shared connection.  
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Multinational state   show
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show A nation (people) and a state (country) who share the same borders.  
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Multistate nation   show
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Stateless nation   show
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show From the late 1400s to 1850s, when Europeans colonized the Americas and coastal Africa.  
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Second wave of colonialism   show
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World-Systems Theory   show
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show Economic system where people, corporations, and states produce goods and services and trade them on the world market with the goal of making a profit.  
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show Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.  
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show Places in the world economy where core processes dominate.  
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show Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.  
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show Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring; places that are exploited by the core but in turn exploit the periphery.  
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Centripetal forces   show
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Centrifugal forces   show
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Unitary states   show
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show In a strong federal system, the regions have substantial authority over such matters as education, land use, and infrastructure planning.  
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show Transfer of power from central government to regional or local government within a state (country).  
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Democracy   show
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Reapportionment   show
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show A redistricting practice where a minority population is divided across districts to ensure the majority population controls each district (also called dilution).  
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Majority-minority districts   show
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Gerrymandering   show
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show A plane that stretches beneath the subsoil and into the airspace that legally divides two countries.  
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show Political boundaries defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc.  
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show Political boundary defined by a prominent physical feature in the physical landscape, such as a riverbank or the crest of a mountain range.  
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show theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. “Who controls Eastern Europe controls Heartland; Who controls Heartland controls World Island; World Island controls world.”  
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show World order in which one state is in a position of global dominance.  
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Deterritorialization   show
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show When a local culture shapes an aspect of popular culture as their own, adopting the popular culture to their local culture.  
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Supranational organizations   show
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