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Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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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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Territorial integrity   show
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Colonialism   show
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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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show A nation (people) and a state (country) who share the same borders.  
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Multinational state   show
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Multistate nation   show
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show A nation that does not have a state.  
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Boundary   show
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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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Heartland theory   show
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show World order in which one state is in a position of global dominance.  
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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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Supranational organizations   show
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