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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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Territoriality   show
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Peace of Westphalia   show
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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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Colonialism   show
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Mercantilism   show
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Nation   show
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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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show A nation (people) and a state (country) who share the same borders.  
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show State (country) with more than one nation (people).  
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Multistate Nation   show
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show A nation that does not have a state.  
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First Wave of Colonialism   show
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Second Wave of Colonialism   show
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show Theory originated by Immanuel Wallerstein and illuminated by his three-tier structure, proposing that social change in and economic wealth in the periphery is inextricably linked to the core.  
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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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Core   show
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show Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.  
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Semi-Periphery   show
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show In nationalism, attributes of a nation that can be activated or manipulated to unite the nation, such as national iconography, patriotism, shared culture and history, or common religion or ideology.  
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Centrifugal Forces   show
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Unitary States   show
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show A system with a central government and several states that retain independence on internal affairs.  
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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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show Electoral district where the majority of the people in the district are from a minority group.  
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show Manipulating electoral districts to give one political party unfair advantage.  
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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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Geometric Boundaries   show
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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 British geographer Halford Mackinder’s theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.  
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Unilateralism   show
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show Movement of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states (countries).  
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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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show 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 organization.  
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