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Chapter 8

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Definition
State   show
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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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Territorial integrity   show
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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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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. Immigrant  
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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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World-Systems Theory   show
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show a system in which individuals, corporations, and states own land and produce goods and services that are exchanged for profit.  
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Commodification   show
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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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Centripetal forces   show
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Centrifugal forces   show
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show A state that has a centralized government and administration that exercises power equally over all parts of the state.  
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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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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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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 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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Reterritorialization   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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