Ap Human Geography: Chapter 8 Vocab

A subdivision that focuses on nature and the problems of developing organisms

A territory that a sovereign has created. A state has a definite, a permanent population, a government, and it is recognized as a state by other states.

A country's or a local communities sense of property and attachment to the land.

A authority figure who has the last say and the final choice over a problem.

The right for a state to defend itself from another state attacking them.

A peace negotiated in 1648 to end the 30 year war. The treaty consisted of, new language recognizing statehood and nationhood, clearly defined borders, and guarantees of security.

A policy of European states that promoted a state's economic position with other countries.

a term holding all citizens of the state

A member of a modern state system that posses power and thinks of themselves as a single united nation.

The idea that the people are the sovereignty.

A state with more than one nation inside its borders.

When a nation stretches across states and borders.

Nations that do not have states.

The world economy, people, corporations, and states produce goods and exchange them on the world market with the intent of making profit.

Process of placing a price on a good and then buying, selling, and trading that good.

A process that incorporates higher levels of education, higher salaries, and more technology.

A process that incorporates lower levels of education, lower salaries, and less technology.

Places where core and periphery processes are both occurring.

The capacity of a state to influence another state or to achieve its goals through diplomatic, economic, and militaristic means.

A system where a central government represents the various entities within a nationstate.

Forces that unify a country.

Forces that divide a country.

A nationstate that has a centralized government and a administration that exercises power equally all over the the state.

The process where regions within a state demand and gain political and growing autonomy at the expense of central government.

A system where each representative is elected from a territorial defined district.

A process when a representative district are switches, according to population shifts.

The process by which majority and minority populations are spread evenly across each of the districts to be created ensuring control by the majority of each district.

The process by which the majority of the population is from minority.

The practice of dividing areas into electoral districts to give one political party a electoral majority.

A vertical plane between states that cuts through the rocks below and the air space above.

Boundary defined and delimited as a straight line or an arc.

Boundary defined and delimited by a prominent physical feature in the natural landscape.

Any political power based in the heart of Eurasia could gain sufficient to eventually dominate the world.

A process when geopoliticians deconstruct and focus on explaining the underlying spatial assumptions and territorial perspectives of politicians.

Order in which one state is in a position of dominance with allies following rather than joining the political decision making processes.

3 or more nation states involving political, economic, and/or cultural corporation to promote shared objects.

1. The world economy has one market and a global division labor

2. Although the world has multiple states, almost everything takes place within the context of the world economy

3. The world economy has a 3 tier structure

Capitalism

Commodification

Core

United States

A ruler over a anonymous group of people and place. Colonialism creates unequal cultural and economic relations

Human territoriality is the like an animals instinct to control and defend its territory

Republic of Venice

Brandenburg

Papla states of Italy

Kingdom of Hungary

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