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AP Human Ch. 8

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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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show Treaties negotiated in 1648 that formally recognized the sovereignty of states  
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Sovereignty   show
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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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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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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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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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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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Capitalism   show
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Commodification   show
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Core   show
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Periphery   show
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Semi-periphery   show
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Centripetal forces   show
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show In nationalism, 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  
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Unitary states   show
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Federal state   show
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Devolution   show
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Deterritorialization   show
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Movement of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states (countries)   show
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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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