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defined territory, a permanent population, a government, and is recognized by other states
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State
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forces that unify a country
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Centripetal
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forces that seperate a country <- ->
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Cetrifugal
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a country's or more local community's sense of property and attachment
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Territoriality
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states themselves have their own shapes
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State Morphology
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perforated
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Italy->Vatican
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compact
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France
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elongated
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Chile
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proupt
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Myanmar
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fragmented
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Japan
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UNCLOS
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United Nations Conference Clause of the Sea
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territorial sea
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12 miles out
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drawing a voting district in order to give one party an unfair advantage
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Gerrymanderian
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A venture involving three or more nation-states involving formal political, economic, and/or cultural cooperation to promote shared objectives
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Supernationalism
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*single currency = Euro
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European Union
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area that Turkey and Greece dispute over
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Cyprus
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Group of muslims that dont have a country and are treated badly in Turkey
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Kurds
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The entire built-up, nonrural area and its population
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Urban
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Many are exclusively residential; others have their own commercial centers or shopping malls
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Suburban
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The division of a city into different regions or zones (e.g. residential or industrial) for certain purposes or functions (e.g. housing or manufacturing)
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Functional Zonation
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A structural model of the American central city that suggests the existence of five concentric land-use rings arranged around a common center
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concentric zone model
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The rehabilitation of deteriorated, often abandoned, housing of low-income inner-city residents
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Gentification
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A country's largest city
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Primate City
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In a model urban hierarchy, the idea that the population of a city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy
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rank-size rule
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Poor areas in Brazil
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Favelas
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Theory proposed by Walter Christaller that explains how and where central places in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another
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Central Place Theory
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no area overlapped or left out
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Hexagon
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The purposeful tending of crops and livestock in order to produce food and fiber
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Agriculture
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Approach to farming and ranching that avoids the use of herbicides, pesticides, growth hormones, and other similar synthetic inputs
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Organic Agriculture
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Dovetailing with and benefiting from the Industrial Revolution, the Second Agricultural Revolution witnessed improved methods of cultivation, harvesting, and storage of farm produce
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Second Agricultural Revolution
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Genetic modification of a plant such that its reproductive success depends on human intervention
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Plant Domestication
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Genetic modification of an animal such that it is rendered more amenable to human control
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Animal Domestication
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Self-sufficient agriculture that is small scale and low technology and emphasizes food production for local consumption, not for trade
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Subsistence Agriculture
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large scale farming and ranching operations that employ vast land bases, large mechanized equipment, factory-type labor forces, and the latest technology
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Comerical Agriculture
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The recently successful development of higher-yield, fast-growing varieties of rice and other cereals in certain developing countries, which led to increased production per unit area and a dramatic narrowing of the gap between population growth and food needs
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Green Revolution
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Crops that carry new traits that have been inserted through advanced genetic engineering methods
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genetically modified organisms (GMO's)
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real estate agents convinced white homeowners living near a black area to sell their house at low prices, preying on their fears that black families would soon move in and cause property value to go down.
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Block-Busting
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people were not present
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antecendent
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boundary that divides a group were drawn during colonization
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superimposed
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boundaries that dont exist anymore, but socialy still kind of do
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relic
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How many african coutnries are landlocked
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15
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