Ap human unit 4

Autonomous Region

Autonomous Region

Region that has a high degree of self government and freedom to govern themselves

Centrifugal force

Forces in which it divides people

Centripetal forces

Forces that unites people together

Choke point

A point that restricts movement or access, often used in reference to strategic areas in geography or transportation.

Colonialism

Act that focus on acquiring and claiming a territory for things such as resources.

Consequent Boundaries

Boundary that takes account different cultural landscapes but often divides various people of different cultural, religious backgrounds.

Defined boundaries

Established by a legal document or treaty

Multinational state

A state with several national groups within its borders

Multi-state nations

A national groups homeland has a state of its own and spreads across its borders into other countries

Nation

Group of people with a shared similar culture, a historical attachment to an area or homeland, seek some degree of political control over the homeland.

Nation-states

A state where the borders of a national groups homeland concides with the border of the state

Neocolonialism

using economic, political, and cultural pressures to control or influence countries, especially those that were formerly colonized, without direct military or political intervention.

redistricting

Internal political boundaries are redrawn after a census, which determines voting districts for legislatures

Shatter-belts

A region in the world where persistent, splintering, and fracturing takes place and major world powers compete for influence

Autonomous region

Have a moderate degree of self government and freedom to govern themselves

Sovereignty

the right of a state to rule it’s self

State

General term for a country

Stateless nation

national groups is spread out over several different states

supra nationalism

When several countries form an organization to achieve common goals and benefit for all the countries

Territoriality

The connection of people, Their culture, and their economic systems to the land

Gerrymandering

Process in which theirs manipulation of boundaries of electoral districts to favor one political party

UNCLOS (United Nations convention on the law of sea)

Laws that regulate maritime boundaries and resources, establish Territorial claims

Voting districts

Local Geographical areas of a larger county in which you vote for representative to congress. Determined by redistricting by each census.

Political Geography

A map demonstrating all man made borders between countries, states, cities, or any areas that are divided by some form of border

Frontier

A zone of separation between two states in which neither state holds political control

Buffer zone/state

A country or area created for the purpose of separating two countries

Confederate States

A form of government in which the central government has a few to no powers and almost all power rests with the local or regional governments

Packing

Making a district full of the opposition party

Cracking

Spreading out the opposition party voters through many districts

Delimited Boundary

A line drawn on a map that shows the limits of the governments

Demarcated boundary

Identified by physical markers or barriers

Definitional ( Positional)

Conflicts over the interpretation of documents defining a boundary or the way it is shown on the ground

Location(Territorial)

Conflicts between states or regions over the ownership of a given area

Operational (function)

Conflicts over the national policies applied at a border

Allocational (function)

Conflicts over the use of resources, created or complicated by a boundary

Geometric Boundary

Boundaries that usually follow lines or latitude or longitude and are drawn without consideration for the natural or cultural features of a territory