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AP Human Geography
Chapter 7 and 8
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History
11th Grade
01/05/2012

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Apartheid
Definition
Physical Separation of different races into different geographic areas
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Balkanization
Definition
process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities
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balkanized
Definition
a term used to describe a small geographic area that connot be maintained because there are too mant confliciting ethnicities
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Blockbusting
Definition
a real estate strategy to flip a neighborhood from black to white, or opposite.
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Centripetal force
Definition
anything that raises nationalism of a country
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ethnic cleansing

 

Definition
the systematic killing of an ethnicity
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ethnicity

 

Definition
identity with a group of people who share common cultural values from a particular hearth
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Mutli ethnic state
Definition
many different ethnicities contribute to the formation of a single nationality
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multi national state
Definition
two ethnic groups that agree to coexist peacefully, regarding eachother as separate nationalities
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nationalism
Definition
loyalty and devotion to ones own nation/state
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nationality
Definition
identity with a group of people with shared traits
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nation state
Definition
a state whose territory corresponds with an ethnicity
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race
Definition
a group of people who identify with a common ancestral background
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racism
Definition
the belief that race primarily determines character and human worth
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Racist
Definition
a person who prescribes to the beliefs of racism
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self determinism
Definition
the concepts that ethnicites have the right to govern themselves
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Sharecropper
Definition
a person who works a field rented from someone else, and pays rents by giving up a portion of his crops
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triangular slave trade
Definition
a trade pattern between euope, america, and Africa
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Balance of powers
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a condition of roughly equal opposing sides

 

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boundary
Definition
the extent of a state's territory
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City State
Definition
A sovereign State that compromises of a town and surrounding country side
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colony
Definition
a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completly independent
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colonialism
Definition
an effort by a country to impose its political, economic, and cultural views on another territory
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compact state
Definition
where all boundary lines are approx. the same distance away from the center
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elongated state
Definition
state with a long narrow shape. Chile
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Federal State
Definition
Allocates strong power to the local governments within the state
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fragmented state
Definition
several discontinous pieces of territory
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frontier
Definition
an area that no state excersices complete control over
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gerrymandering
Definition
redrawing political lines in favor of one party
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imperialism
Definition
control of a territory that has already been inhabited
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Landlocked State
Definition
a state that doesnt have any surrounding bodies of water
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Microstate
Definition
States with a very small land area
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perforated state
Definition
a state that complety surrounds another state
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prorupted state
Definition
a state that completly surrounds another state
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prorupted state
Definition
a state that has a protrusion usually for resources
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sovereignty
Definition
independence from control of its internal affairs by other states
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state
Definition
an area controlled by a political unit and ruled by an established government over its internal and foreign affairs.
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unitary state
Definition
places most power into the hands of the central government
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