Key terms chp 8

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, it is a mix of the two

• Democracy

• Federal state

• Anocracy

• Sovereignty

A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people

• Anocracy

• Autocracy

• Monocarchy

• Democracy

A condition of the roughly equal strength between opossing countries or alliances of countries

• Democracy

• Republic

• Federal state

• Balance of power

An invisible line that marks the extent of a States territory

• Frontier

• Boundary

• State

• Colony

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside

• Sovereignty

• Gerrymander

• Federal state

• City-state

An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose a political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory

• anocracy

• Balance of power

• Colonialism

• Unitary states

a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than a completely independent

• Federal state

• Frontier

• Multiethnic state

• Colony

A state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly

• Compact state

• Federal state

• Perforated state

• Prorupted state

A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office

• Repiblic

• Democracy

• Anocracy

• Monocracy

A state with along narrow shape

• Fragmented state

• Prorupted state

• Elongated state

• Compact state