Geography

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State's power to control space/territory, and shape international political relations.

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Geopolitics

- EX.) changing boundaries in Eastern Europe 20th century

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Inclusionary (control/govern what's inside)

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Boundaries

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Exclusive (keep what's outside out)

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Territory

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Geographical bases of boundaries

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Natural features, lines of latitude/longitude

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Category of belonging to a state, with specific civil and political rights

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Citizenship

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Characteristics of States:

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Sovereignty and governement

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The belief that nations have natural right to independence, self-government.

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Nationalism

- EX.) breakup of former USSR and Yugoslavia

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State Theory

State as ideological and repressive

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Althusser

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State Theory

State operating through power/knowledge

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Foucault

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State Theory

State is greater than the formal institutions it works through

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Deleuze

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Extension of state authority over the political and economic life of other territories

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Imperialism

- Africa and the British

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Formal establishment and maintenance of rule by a sovereign power over a foreign population through the establishment of settlements

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Colonialism

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Effects of Colonialism:

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Transformation of Indian language/law/culture; migration

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Discourse of West as superior to Eastern "other"

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Orientalism

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North-South Divide:

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Between rich former colonizers and poor former colonies.

- Dependency Theory

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Process of Formal Decolonization:

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Mandate system under League of Nations/United Nations

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Maintenance of colonial/imperial power thru economic, political, and cultural influence

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Neocolonialism

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Collective identity and autonomy

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regionalism

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Extreme devotion to local interests

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Sectionalism

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Claims across borders

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Irredentism

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Some demographers believe that the high rates of natural population increase in the world's periphery are because the counties are stalled in which phase?

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B

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According to the demographic transition model, an industrial country is likely to have what type of demographic patterns?

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Low birth rates and low death rates

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To enlarge their resource base in the face of rising populations, empires often pursued policies of:

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Colonization

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What type of map intentionally distorts the shapes of land masses on maps?

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Cartograms

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What is the difference between a refugee and an IDP?

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A refugee has crossed an international border; an IDP has not.

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Hurricane Katrina was not a purely natural disaster. T/F?

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True

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The first agricultural revolution and the subsequent transition to food-producing mini-systems resulted in:

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- More Settlements

- Higher Population densities

- non-agricultural Specializations

- Barter and trade between communities

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If your friend tells you that the distance between her apartment and her office is a $9.00 cab ride, she is making a statement about the ______________ distance between them.

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Relative

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When you refer to the Boulder neighborhood known as "the hill," you are identifying this place in terms of its ______________ Location.

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Nominal

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Structural Adjustment Programs typically require governments pursue:

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Policies of Privatization, Deregulation, and free trade.

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An Area Recognized as special because it is the site of a religious experience or event

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Sacred Space

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T/F, Mono-cropping makes crops more expensive to produce, but also makes them less vulnerable to disease.

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False

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Knox and Marston suggest that a general relationship between wealth and religiosity exists such that the wealthier a country is, the less important religion is to its people. A significant exception to this trend is found in:

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The United States of America

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A similar film industry, known as Nollywood, exists in Nigeria. Examples like Bollywood in India or Nollywood in Nigeria provide evidence to support that:

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Cultural variation exists despite the globalization of commercial cultural products.

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T/F, The popularity and importance of English as a global language is a very recent development directly tied to the dominance and primacy of English-Language sites on the internet.

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False

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The Wall Street Bull in New York, the Nelson Pillar in Dublin, Ireland, and the statues of Buddha in Bamiyan, Afghanistan are all places that became so iconic that a near universal understanding of theri meaning and coalesced around them.

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False

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What type of map would contain the most detail about global language distribution and diversity?

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Map of Language Dialects

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What are key elements of the Green Revolution?

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- Increases in the use of synthetic fertilizers

- Mechanization of the farming process

- The development of seeds that produced higher yields

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A system of intensive subsistence agriculture to support a community of 1000 people would require:

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Minimal land

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The two-way process by which people create and modify places and landscapes at the same time that places and landscapes change and influence people is an example of:

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A sociospatial dialectic

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The Arc de Triomphe in Paris has been copied in a wide variety of places around the world and is an integral element on the symbolic landscapes of many cities. These copies are primarily located in former French colonies. T/F?

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False