Chapter 8 Vocabulary

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Boundary?

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Limit of territorial control

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Frontier?

Back 2

Area wherein no central government has control

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Antecedent Boundary?

Back 3

Defined before significant settlement

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Subsequent Boundary?

Back 4

Defined after significant settlement

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Consequent Subsequent Boundary?

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Subsequent Boundary that considers the human pattern

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Superimposed Subsequent Boundary?

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Subsequent Boundary that ignores the human pattern

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Relic Boundary?

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Boundary that no longer functions

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Positional Boundary Dispute?

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Where is Boundary? (Antecedent)

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Territorial Boundary Dispute?

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Whose land is where? (Common ethnicity or Prior possession)

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Irridentism?

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Belief in own right to annex a land because of common ethnicity or prior possession

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Allocational Boundary Dispute?

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Who gets the resources?

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Functional Boundary Dispute?

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Who/what can cross? How?

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Centripetal Force?

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Anything a country does/is that brings is citizens together through nationalism or unity

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Centrifugal Force?

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Anything a country does/is that weakens their nationalism and unity

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Decolonization?

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When a mother country gives its colonies independence

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Enclave?

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A fragmented boundary which part of the teritotty is within the boundaries of a neighbor country

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Exclave?

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Fragmented boundary where territory is partially surrounded by a neighbor country

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EEZ?

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Exclusive Economic Zone, Distance 200 nautical miles from any shore which the owner of the land HS the right to its natural resources

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Gerrymandering?

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Redistricting for your party's/ethnicity's advantage

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Wasted vote?

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Gerrymandering through diluting opposition throughout many districts

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Excess Vote?

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Gerrymandering through concentrating the opposition into as few districts as possible

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Stacked Vote

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A form of gerrymandering that is sometimes legal where minority groups are together in districts

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Country?

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Independent political entity (placing emphasis on the territory)

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Balance of power?

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Strength in opposition

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City-state?

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Small state with city and countryside

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Colonialism?

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Establishing settlements in a territory with political, economic and social control on territory

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Colony?

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Territory legally tied to a sovereign state that is dependent upon the sovereign state

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Devolution?

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A state breaking apart from centrifugal forces

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International Organizations?

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Sovereign States working together to achieve common goals

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Dependencies ?

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Colonies or protectorates, Lack Control over external affairs and occasionally internal

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Microstate?

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State with very small land area

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Nation?

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A community of people

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Nation-state?

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A state whose territory coincides with the territory occupied by its nation; diffused through W Europe to Latin America, back to W Europe, and finally to Asia and Africa

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Reapportionment?

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Moving representatives around when migration between states occur

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Redistricting?

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Redrawing district boundaries because of population shifts within state

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Self-determination?

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Concept that an ethnicity has the right to rule it's own people

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Sovereignty?

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Independence from other states

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Supranational Organization?

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3+ states working together to achieve of a common goal while surrendering some sovereignty

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Terrorism?

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Politically motivated violence against non-combatants