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Chapter 8 Vocab Test

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Periphery
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Centrifugal Forces
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Reapportionment
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Centripetal Forces
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Gerrymandering
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Geometric Boundaries
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Sovereignty
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Capitalism
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Territoriality
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First Wave of Colonialism
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Democracy
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Nation-State
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Nation
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Core
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Stateless Nation
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Second Wave of Colonialism
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Majority-minority Districs
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Federal States
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World-Systems Theory
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Semi-periphery
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A system with a central government and several states that retain independence on internal affairs.
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From the late 1400s to 1850s, when Europeans colonized the Americas and coastal Africa.
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From the 1850s to 1960s, when Europeans colonized Africa and Asia in the context of the industrial revolution.
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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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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. Carrying capacity
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Places in the world economy where periphery processes dominate.
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A nation that does not have a state.
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Electoral district where the majority of the people in the district are from a minority group.
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Manipulating electoral districts to give one political party unfair advantage.
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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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The legal authority to have the last say over a territory. Under international law, states are sovereign.
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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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Political boundaries defined and delimited (and occasionally demarcated) as a straight line or an arc.
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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. Sense of place
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Places in the world economy where core processes dominate.
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A nation (people) and a state (country) who share the same borders.
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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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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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Sense of ownership and attachment to a specific territory.
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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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Transfer of power from central government to regional or local government within a state (country).
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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 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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Movement of economic, social, and cultural processes out of the hands of states (countries).
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Physically taking over a territory and people and controlling the economy and government.
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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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An early form of capitalism based on trading large quantities of goods, using gold and silver as currencies.
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Nation (people) that stretches across states (countries).
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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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State (country) with more than one nation (people).

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