AP Human Geography Chapter 8 Vocab

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

• Gerrymandering

• Colonialism

• Sovereignty

• Self-determination

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

• Federal State

• Microstate

• Autocracy

• Democracy

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

• Self-determination

• Sovereignty

• Democracy

• Federal State

An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials.

• Unitary State

• Federal State

• Multinational State

• Multiethnic State

A country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic but rather displays a mix of the two types.

• Anocracy

• Unitary State

• Autocracy

• Federal State

A sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside.

• Perforated State

• Colony

• City-state

• Microstate

The systematic use of violence by a group calculated to create an atmosphere of fear and alarm among a population or to coerce a government into actions it would not otherwise undertake or refrain from actions it wants to take.

• Terrorism

• Gerrmandering

• Balance of Power

• Prorupted State

An invisible line that marks the extent of a state’s territory.

• Boundary

• Landlocked state

• Compact State

A state with a long, narrow shape.

• Perforated State

• Elongated State

• Unitary State

• Prorupted State

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

• Anocracy

• Democracy

• Autocracy

• Unitary State