APHG Unit 4 Vocabulary Unit Intro

Process by which such units come into being and can take place at different scales.

• Scale

• Territoriality

• State

• Nation

A politically organized territory with a permanent population, a defined territory, and a government

• state

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Territoriality

Government's right to control its own territory, both politically and militarily. The state governments have the last say, legally, over their respective territories.

• Sovereignty

• Territoriality

• State

• Nation

A culturally defined term, a group of people who think of themselves as one based on a sense of shared culture and history, and who seek some degree of political territorial autonomy.

• State

• Ethnicity

• Nation

• Sovereignty

Politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space.

• Territoriality

• Country

• State

• Nation-State

• Nation

A state with more than one nation inside its borders

• Multistate nation

• Multinational State

• Stateless nation

• Territoriality

When a nation stretches across borders and across states

• Multistate Nation

• Multinational State

• Stateless nation

• Territoriality

Some nations do not have a state

• Multination states

• Multistate Nations

• Stateless Nation

• Sovereignty

Palestinians and Kurds are examples of this

• Multinational State

• Nation

• Stateless Nation

• State

Imperial powers exercised ruthless control over their domains and organized them for maximum economic exploitation, organized the flow of raw materials for their own benefit

• Colonialism

• Neocolonialism

• Imperial State

• Sovereignty