APHUG EXAM overall vocabs

Site factors & situation factors + examples

Site:

Situation:

Subsequent Occupancy

How people leave unique cultural imprints on a place,

Centripetal VS centrifugal forces

Centripetal - bring people together and promote unity.

Centrifugal - divide and force people apart

Define globalization

Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide inscope

Cultural Divergence

Cultural Convergence

Cultural Divergence: Seperated from dif aspects of their culture (isolation, other customs)

Cultural Convergence: When did culture merge together to form one mass culture, often in a modern global culture.

Pagodas

Temples that serve as important cultural + religious landmarks of the Buddha.

Protolanguage

hypothetical reconstructed ancestral language from which a language family is believed to have originated

Isogloss

Linguistic boundary that separates regions with different language usages or dialects.

assimilation

loosing original culture, to adopt a DOMINANT group

Native americans

Acculturation

Retaining some respect adopting some others

Self-determination

The right and desire to rule themselves.

Autonomous region & semi-autonomous

In a region and controls HIGH degree of autonomy granted. EX: native American reservation.

Semi: mild authority, state can still intervene. EX: Hong Kong.

devolution

The transfer of power from a central government to regional or local governments, often as a result of political pressures or demands for greater local control.

Shatterbelt region

A region that experiences ongoing tension and conflict due to its location between two or more powerful states or cultural groups, often resulting in political instability.

EX: Kashgar (Muslim ppl Hindu ruler), eastern Europe,

Choke-point

An area that must be passed that is strategically important.

EX: Suez Canal, Panamal canal (South america)

Process of map making

Irredentism

The wish to expand into new territories piece by piece

Frontier

Area where no state has control over

Dif types of border disputes

Definition, Locational, Operational, Allocational

Ethnic separatism

When a group of people identify with their ethnicity more than the state

Counterterroism and anti-terrorism

Antiterrorism - reduced the probability of terrorism. Airport scans, missle defense, barricading

Counterterrorism- offend ways like making weapons. military, FBI, CIA, drones