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Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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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 lest 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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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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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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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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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 with a state.  
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Reapportionment   show
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Splitting   show
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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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Physical-political boundaries   show
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show Halford Mackinder's theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world. "Controls Eastern Europe controls the Heartland; Controls the Heartland controls the World Island; then 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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Supranational organizations   show
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Balkanization   show
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European Union   show
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World-systems theory   show
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identify three area or groups who produce devolutionary pressure in erupoe   show
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Devolution   show
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show lol  
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