APHG Unit 4 Terms

stopped after 4.3

State

1. has a defined boundary

2. contains a permanent population

3. maintains sovereignty

4. is recognized

Sovereignty

the [owner of a political unit, or government, to rule over it’s own affaris

Nation

a group of people who have certain things in common (ex. common cultural heritage, beliefs/values, traditional claim to land…)

Nation-States

a nation of people who fulfill the qualifications of a state

Multinational States

a country that contains more than one nation

Autonomous Region

a defined area within a state that has a high degree of self-government and freedom from it’s parent state

semiautonomous regions

a state that has a degree of, but not complete self-rule

Stateless Nations

a cultural group that has no independent political entitity

Multistate Nation

when a nation has a state of it’s own but stretches across borders of other states.

Centripetal Force

one that helps to unify people within a country

Centrifugal Force

one that tends to divide people

Imperialism

a broader concept that includes a variety of way of influencing another country or group of people by direct conquest, economic control, or cultural dominance

Colonialism

a type of imperialism in which people move into and settle on the land of another country

Devolution

the process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit

choke point

a place oh physical congestion between wider regions of movement and interaction