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Chapter 8 vocab

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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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show Sense of ownership and attachment to a specific territory  
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Peace of Westphalia   show
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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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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.  
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Nation-state   show
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Multinational state   show
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show Nation that stretches across states  
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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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show Places in the world economy where core processes dominate.  
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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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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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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  
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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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show Redistribution of representatives based on population change. For example, seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are reapportioned across states after each census before each state redistricts.  
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show A redistricting practice where a minority population is divided across districts to ensure the majority population controls each district  
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show Redistribution of representatives based on population change. For example, seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are reapportioned across states after each census before each state redistricts.  
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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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show Political boundaries defined and delimited 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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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  
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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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show An organization of three or more states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives.  
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