AP human geography vocab chapter 8

Anocracy

• A country that is not fully democratic or autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the 2 types

• autocracy

• An attempt to establish settlements

• A sst of laws

Autocracy

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

• A country run by people interest

• A set of laws

• A form of democracy

Balance of power

• A condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries

• Inequal strength between countries

• a compact state

• condition of a city state

City state

• A sovereign state comprising a city a its immediately surrounding countryside

• a state surrounding water

• A state surrounding a city

• Colony

Colonialism

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

• A territory legally tied to a state

• A concept of a colony

• state

Colony

• A territory legally tied to a sovereign state than completely independent

• A country that elects leaders

• A territory

• A small state

Compact state

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

• Soveirgn state

• No direct outlet to the sea

• Gives power to local government

Democracy

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

• Freedom

• America

• ethnic diversity

Elongated state

• A state with a long narrow shape

• A fat state

• A small state

• A state without a boundary

Federal state

• An internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government

• National government

• Small land area

• Fragmented state