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What are the 3 basics to human culture? |
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Political Activity, Language, Religion |
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What is the study of the political organization of the planet? |
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How many countries are in the world (on the political map)? |
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What does Landlocked mean? |
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Without coasts on the open sea |
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Who studies the spatial manifestations of political processes at various levels of scale? |
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What do maps we draw reflect? |
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What are governments that goes under the control of a ruler who is under control of religious leaders? |
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What is the opposite of a Theocracy? |
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What is the key component of geographic research? |
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Effort to control pieces of Earth's surface for political and social ends |
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Who used the tern "human territory"? |
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What is a key ingredient in social and political space construction? |
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Who wrote "The Territorial Impervative" in 1966? |
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What is an example of territoriality? |
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What does the term "Country" come from? |
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"Contra" (Latin) means against or on the opposite side |
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What does the term "State" come from? |
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"Status" (Latin) means standing |
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When is "state" capitalized? |
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When it means a part of a country |
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T/F: Nation and state or country are interchangeable. |
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False- one of the most common errors |
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What do people in a state share? |
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What country is a state but not a nation? |
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What is a group of people who share historic, ethnic, linguistic, and religious connotations? |
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What is the most popular stateless nation? |
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T/F: All nations posses national territory. |
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In the 1990's who controlled parts of a future state? |
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How many Palestinians are there? |
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How many Palestinians are in Jordan? |
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How many Palestinians are in Lebanon? |
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How many Palestinians are in Syria? |
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How many states make up Kurdistan? |
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How many Kurds are in Kurdistan? |
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What is the largest minority in Turkey? |
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What is the capital of Turkey? |
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What are the building blocks of international society? |
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What influenced the modern state system? |
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Where are the origins of the European model? |
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SE Mediterranean Sea shores |
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The ideas of statehood in Europe laid dormant until feudalism gave way to what? |
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What was the most significant event in the European Model? |
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1066 Norman invasion of England |
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The peace of Westphaila is the 1st major step in the emergence of of the European State according to what? |
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Political-Geographic perspective |
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What was Europe's most destructive war? |
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What laid the foundation for Europe's made up national states? |
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In West Europe what became the national consciousness focus points? |
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What are opposers to monarchs? |
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What is the name for Europe's rebirth? |
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Who was the personification of absolute rule that prevailed in Europe during the late Renaissance? |
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The events of Europe's boundary changing happened during when? |
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French Revolution (1789-1795) |
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T/F: Europe's political revolution isn't over now. |
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What is a variation of the European Model? |
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What is the literal meaning of a Nation-State? |
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An area where a nation and state occupy the same area |
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What is the final authority over a territory's political and military affairs? |
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What came from a fusion of regime of sovereignty that emerged in Central Europe after the 30 year war and French Revolution? |
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What is the 30 years war end with? |
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What defined the ground rules of emerging international state system and nation-state model? |
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T/F: The existence of Nation-States depends on how someone defines nation. |
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What does a traditional nation have? |
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How many Traditional Nations are there? |
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What is an example of a national spirit nation? |
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How big is the largest state territory? |
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17 million squared kilometers (6.6 million squared miles) |
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What is the norm size of state territories? |
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7.5 million squared kilometers (3 million squared miles) |
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less than 1000 squared kilometers (400 squared miles) |
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How many people are in China? |
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How many people are in Iceland? |
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What is necessary for a state to succeed? |
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What does nation development come from? |
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Education propaganda or periods of war or nationhood spirit |
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What are the 4 main features of the European model? |
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Clearly defined territory, substantial population, organized structures, power |
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What are the 4 main features of the European model? |
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Clearly defined territory, substantial population, organized structures, power |
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What is the key ingredient of the European model? |
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What can no state exist without? |
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Who sees Palestinians as stateless nations? |
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What do differences in territory amount translate into? |
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Opportunities and Challenges |
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What do the territorial size, shape, and relative location make up? |
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T/F: A big and small size of a nation can be both good and bad. |
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T/F: The influence of the development of regions and states don't determine political, social, and economic well-being. |
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A state where the distance from geometric center to any point on the boundary didn't vary greatly. |
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What is a fragmented state? |
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A state that has 2 or more pieces (Philippines) |
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What is an elongated state? |
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A state that is 6 times longer than its width (Chile, Vietnam) |
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What is a protrupt state? |
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A state that has a protruded area from a more compact area (Southern part of Thailand) |
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What is a perforated state? |
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A state that has another country inside its country boundary (South Africa by Lestho) |
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What country doesn't tap resources for its own benefit? |
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What two countries don't have resources? |
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A piece of land separated from its homeland |
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What is an example of an exclave? |
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Nakhichevan outside Azerbaijan |
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A piece of a country completely surrounded by another country |
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What is an example of an enclave? |
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Nagorno-Karabakh inside Azerbaijan out of Armenia |
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What has the largest number of landlocked states? |
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Vertical planes that go through the subsoil and up through the air |
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What two countries share a gas reserve? |
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Germany and the Netherlands |
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What two countries share the Rumaylah oil reserve? |
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The atmosphere above a state's land |
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How many stages does a boundary evolve through? |
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What is the first step of the Evolution of a Boundary? |
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An agreement is reached on the rough positioning of the border |
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What does the exact location of a boundary come from? |
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What is the second step of the Evolution of a Boundary? |
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Cartographers put boundaries on maps |
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What is the actual addition of boundaries on a map? |
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What is the third step of the Evolution of a Boundary? |
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Marking the boundary on the ground |
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What is the marking of a boundary on the ground? |
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What is a straight line boundary? |
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What is a boundary that uses land features for lines? |
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Physical (Natural)-political boundary |
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What does that stability of a boundary often have to do with? |
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Local, Historical, and Geographical circumstances |
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What are boundaries that mark breaks in the human landscape? |
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Cultural-political boundaries |
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What were cultural-political boundaries formerly called? |
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Anthropogographic boundaries |
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Who was the genetic boundary classification pioneered by? |
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What is a boundary formed before a cultural landscape emerged? |
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What is an example of an antecedent boundary? |
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Malaysia and Indonesia on Borneo |
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What is a boundary formed after a cultural landscape took shape? |
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What is an example of a subsequent boundary? |
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What is a boundary forcibly drawn across unified cultural landscape? |
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What is an example of a superimposed boundary? |
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What is a boundary that ceased to function but whose imprints are still evident on cultural landscape? |
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What term is misused with boundary? |
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What is a zone of separation between communities, clusters, groups, and states? |
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What is Earth's last land frontier? |
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T/F: The notion that boundaries could serve as fortifications endured into the mid 20th century. |
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What was built in 1961 to keep Germans out of Berlin? |
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What serves as defensive functions, mark limits of state jurisdiction, and serve as symbols of state sovereignty? |
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T/F: Boundaries only divide the world politically. |
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What is Louisiana divided into? |
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What is Canada divided into? |
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10 provinces, 2 federal territories, and 1 self-governing homeland for Inuits |
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What is Quebec of Canada for? |
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French-speaking Canadians |
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How many more people does India have than the United States? |
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What is India divided into? |
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28 states and 6 union territories |
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What are the 4 forms of boundary disputes? |
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Definitional, Locational, operational, Allocational |
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What type of boundary dispute is about the legal language of a boundary agreement? |
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Defitional Boundary Agreement |
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What is the solution to a defitional boundary dispute? |
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Redefine the definition to suit both parties |
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What type of boundary dispute has to do with the delimination and demarcation of the border? |
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Locational boundary dispute |
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In a locational boundary dispute what is in dispute? |
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Interpretation, not definition |
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What type of boundary involves neighbors who differ over the way their boundary should function? |
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Operational boundary dispute |
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What are boundary disputes over resource arguments? |
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Allocational language disputes |
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