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Ch 9 Vocab

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Political Geography   The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory  
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State   A politically organized independent territory with a government defined borders, and a permanent population; a country  
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Sovereignty   The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders  
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Nations   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   A politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation  
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Multistate Nation   People who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country  
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Irredentism   Attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation  
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Multinational State   A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders; having patterns of self-determination  
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Autonomous/ Semiautonomous Region   Having the authority to govern territories independently of the national government  
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Stateless Nation   A people unified by culture, language, history, and tradition but not possessing a state  
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Colonialism   The practice of claiming and dominating overseas territories  
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Neocolonialism   The use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressures to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies  
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Territoriality   The attempt to influence or control people and events by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area; the connection of people, their culture, and their economic systems to the land  
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Choke Point   A narrow, strategic passageway to another place through which it is difficult to pass  
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Shatterbelts   A region where states form, join and break up because of ongoing, sometimes violet, conflicts among parties and because they are caught between the interests of more powerful outside states  
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Self-Determination   The right of all people to choose their own political status  
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Imperialism   The push to create an empire by exercising force or influence to control other nations or peoples  
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Devolution   The process that occurs when the central power in a state is broken up among regional authorities within its borders  
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Define   To explicitly state in legally binding documentation such as a treaty where boundaries are located, using reference points such as natural features or lines of latitude and longitude  
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Delimit   To draw boundaries on a map, in accordance with a legal agreement  
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Demarcate   To place physical objects such as stones, pillars, walls or fences to indicate where a boundary exists  
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Administer   To manage the way borders are maintained and how goods and people cross them  
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Antecedent Boundaries   A border established before an area becomes heavily settled  
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Subsequent Boundaries   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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Consequent Boundaries   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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Superimposed Boundaries   A border drawn over existing accepted borders by an outside or conquering force  
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Geometric Boundaries   A mathematically drawn boundary that typically follows lines of latitude and longitude or is a straight-line arc between two points  
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Relic Boundaries   A former boundary that no longer has an official function  
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United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)   The international agreement that established the structure of maritime boundaries  
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Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)   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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