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Human Geography Chapter 8 Vocab

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State   show
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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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Colonialism   show
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show An early form of capitalism based on trading large quantities of goods, using gold and silver as currencies.  
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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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Imagined community   show
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Nation-state   show
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show State (country) with more than one nation (people).  
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show Nation (people) that stretches across states (countries).  
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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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show From the 1850s to 1960s, when Europeans colonized Africa and Asia in the context of the industrial revolution.  
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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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Commodification   show
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Core   show
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Periphery   show
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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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Federal states   show
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show Transfer of power from central government to regional or local government within a state (country).  
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show Government by the people where the people are sovereign and have the final say over what happens within a state.  
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Reapportionment   show
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Splitting   show
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Majority-minority districts   show
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show Manipulating electoral districts to give one political party unfair advantage.  
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Boundary   show
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Geometric boundaries   show
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Physical-political boundaries   show
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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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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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