AP Human Geography Unit #4 "Political."
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| African Union (AU) | show 🗑
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| What is the goal of the African Union (AU)? | show 🗑
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| show | Antecedent boundaries are drawn across an area before it is well populated, or, before most of the cultural landscape features were put in place.
Ex. the land separating the United States and Canada,, the Missouri River in North Dakota.
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| show | Apartheid was a political and social system in South Africa during the era of White minority rule. It enforced racial discrimination against non-Whites, mainly focused on skin color and facial features.
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| What are two main consequences of the apartheid system in Africa? | show 🗑
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| Arctic Council | show 🗑
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| Who is in the Arctic Council? What is their purpose? | show 🗑
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| show | ASEAN was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration).
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| show | The members of ASEAN are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malasia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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| show | An autonomous region is an area of a country that has a degree of autonomy, or has freedom from an external authority. It is typical for it to be geographically distant from the country, or to be populated by a national minority.
Ex. Greenland
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| show | A geographical feature on land such as a valley, defile or a bridge or at sea such as a strait, which an armed force is forced to pass, sometimes on a substantially narrower front and therefore greatly decreasing its combat power, to reach its objective.
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| What are some examples of choke points? | show 🗑
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| show | The attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.
Ex. the Philippines,, Guam,, and Panama Canal Zone
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| When did the majority of the world's colonies gain their independence? Explain the impact that British colonialism has had on its former colonies. | show 🗑
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| Consequent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Decolonization is the acquisition, by colonized peoples, of control over their own territory.
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| When did most African countries receive their independence? | show 🗑
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| show | A demilitarized zone is an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel.
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| show | The DMZ in Korea is a line that separates the North and the South. It is heavily guarded by the North side, and is often described as "one of the scariest places on Earth" by tourists.
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| Democratization | show 🗑
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| show | Devolution is the transfer or delegation of power to a lower level, especially by central government to local or regional administration.
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| show | Beginning in the 1960's, the federal government of Canada has gradually been transferring responsibilities to territorial governments in Nunavut.
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| show | An enclave is a portion of territory within or surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct.
Ex. Hopi Reservation inside the Navajo Nation
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| show | An exclave is strip of land that belongs to an entity (like a country or a region) but that is not connected to it by land (islands are not counted).
Ex. Alaska of the United States
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| show | Ethnic cleansing is the systematic forced removal of ethnic, racial and/or religious groups from a given territory by a more powerful ethnic group, often with the intent of making it ethnically homogeneous.
Ex. Jews in Germany,, Rohingyas in Myanmar
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| European Union (EU) | show 🗑
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| Federal State | show 🗑
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| show | Geometric boundaries are formed by arcs or straight lines irrespective of the physical and cultural features of the land it passes through.
Ex. 49th Parallel,, the line between Mexico and Guatemala,, the line between Canada and the US
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| Gerrymandering | show 🗑
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| show | Imperialism involves a policy or ideology of extending a country's rule over foreign nations, often by military force or by gaining political and economic control of other areas.
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| International Waters | show 🗑
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| show | Irredentism is the assertion by the government of a country that has a minority living outside its formal borders belongs to it historically and culturally.
Ex. Crimea and Albania
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| Multinational State | show 🗑
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| show | Multi-State nations are nations that operate more than one state within its borders.
Ex. (North and South) Korea,, Germany
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| show | A nation is a culturally distinctive group of people occupying a specific territory and bound together by a sense of unity arising from shared ethnicity, beliefs, and customs.
Ex. Basques,, Scots,, Norwegians,, Palestinians,, Hmong Chinese,, the Kurds
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| show | A nation-state is a state in which the great majority shares the same culture and are conscious of it. The nation state is an ideal in which cultural boundaries match up with political ones.
Ex. Iceland,, Ireland,, Tunisia,, Sweden,, Greece,, Japan
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| show | Neocolonialism is the practice of using capitalism, globalization and cultural imperialism to influence a developing country instead of the previous colonial methods of direct military control or indirect political control.
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| What is an example of neocolonialism? | show 🗑
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| show | NATO is an international alliance that consists of 30 member states from North America and Europe. It was established at the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949.
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| What is the purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)? | show 🗑
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| show | Reapportionment is the process of allocation electoral seats to geographical areas. For example, the reapportionment due to the 2010 Census change in the US electoral map led to less seats in the South and West and more seats in the North and East.
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| Redistricting | show 🗑
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| show | Relic boundaries are former boundary lines that no longer function as such, yet are still marked by some landscape features or differences on the two sides.
Ex. the divisions between West and East Germany,, West and East Berlin,, and Ireland
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| Satellite State | show 🗑
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| Self-Determination | show 🗑
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| show | A zone of great cultural complexity containing many small cultural groups.
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| Sovereignty | show 🗑
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| State | show 🗑
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| show | An ethnic group or nation that does not possess its own state and is not the majority population in any nation state.
Ex. The Kurds, Hmong Chinese, Basque people, and people of Palestine.
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| Subsequent Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | The right to vote in public, political elections.
Ex. New Zealand, Europe, and North America were the first to allow women to vote (1906-1946.) Central and South America followed suit (1929-1961.) Then followed SE Asia, Africa, and the Middle East.
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| Supranationalism | show 🗑
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| show | An individual or group attempt to identify and establish control over a clearly defined territory considered partially or wholly an exclusive domain; the behavior associated with the defense of the home territory.
Ex. Russia-Ukraine War/Invasion
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| Terrorism | show 🗑
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| Theocracy | show 🗑
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| Unitary State | show 🗑
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| show | An intergovernmental organization, with 153 members, responsible for maintaining international peace and security, ensuring friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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| United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) | show 🗑
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| Superimposed Boundary | show 🗑
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| show | Brings people together and toward a place.
Ex. Strong Centralized Government,, Religious Diversity,, Diverse Ethnic Populus,, and Developed Infrastructure. Also,, Germany since the 1990's and Japan since the 1960's.
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| Centrifugal Forces | show 🗑
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| City State | show 🗑
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| Why were Korea and Vietnam viewed as shatterbelts during the Cold War? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following describes typical characteristics of federal states? | show 🗑
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