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Ch 9 Vocab

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Term
Definition
Political Geography   show
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State   show
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show The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders  
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show A cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity - often all four of these  
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Nation-State   show
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Multistate Nation   show
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show Attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation  
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show A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders; having patterns of self-determination  
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Autonomous/ Semiautonomous Region   show
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Stateless Nation   show
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Colonialism   show
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Neocolonialism   show
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Territoriality   show
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show A narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass  
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Shatterbelts   show
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show The right of all people to choose their own political status  
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show The push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples  
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Devolution   show
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Define   show
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show To draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement  
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Demarcate   show
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show To manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them  
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Antecedent Boundaries   show
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show A border drawn in an area that has been settled and where cultural landscapes exist or are in the process of being established  
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show A type of subsequent boundary that takes into account the differences that exist within a cultural landscape, separating groups that have distinct languages, religions, ethnicities or other traits  
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show A border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force  
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Geometric Boundaries   show
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Relic Boundaries   show
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show The international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries  
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show An area that extends 200 nautical miles from a state's coast; a state has sole access to resources found within the waters or beneath the sea floor of its EEZ  
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