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Chapter 8 Vocabulary Test

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Colonialism
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Gerrymandering
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Multinational state
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Centrifugal forces
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Periphery
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Territorial integrity
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Semi-periphery
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Commodification
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Territoriality
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Sovereignty
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Mercantilism
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Democracy
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State
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Supranational organizations
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Heartland theory
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Stateless nation
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Splitting
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First wave of colonialism
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Unilateralism
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Devolution
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Sense of ownership and attachment to a specific territory.
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A redistricting practice where a minority population is divided across districts to ensure the majority population controls each district (also called dilution).
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Manipulating electoral districts to give one political party unfair advantage.
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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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A nation that does not have a state.
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State (country) with more than one nation (people).
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British geographer Halford Mackinder’s theory that a political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain enough strength to eventually dominate the world.
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The legal authority to have the last say over a territory. Under international law, states are sovereign.
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Physically taking over a territory and people and controlling the economy and government.
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In nationalism, attributes of a nation that can be activated or manipulated to divide the nation, such as unequal distribution of wealth, or religious, linguistic, ethnic, and ideological differences.
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Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.
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From the late 1400s to 1850s, when Europeans colonized the Americas and coastal Africa.
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World order in which one state is in a position of global dominance.
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Transfer of power from central government to regional or local government within a state (country).
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Transformation of goods and services into products that can be bought, sold, or traded.
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An organization of three or more states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives. For example, the European Union is one such organization.
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Government by the people where the people are sovereign and have the final say over what happens within a state.
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Right of a state to defend sovereign territory against incursion from other states.
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An early form of capitalism based on trading large quantities of goods, using gold and silver as currencies.
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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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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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Movement of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states (countries).
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A state where governmental authority is shared among a central government and various other smaller, regional authorities.
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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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A plane that stretches beneath the subsoil and into the airspace that legally divides two countries.
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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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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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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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Treaties negotiated in 1648 that formally recognized the sovereignty of states.
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Nation (people) that stretches across states (countries).

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