Political Geo Vocab Week 1 24

__________ is the study of the way in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power that different groups hold over territory.

• Globalization

• Sovereignty

• Scale of analysis

• Political Geography

• Environmental determinism

A __________has defined boundaries, contains a permanent population, maintains sovereignty over its domestics and international affairs, and is recognized by other states.

• State

• City-state

• Theocracy

• Nation-state

• Multinational state

The right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders is known as

• Sovereignty

• Interregional migration

• Government Policy at a globalized scale

• A concept dealing with centrifugal forces

• Theocracy

_______is a cultural entity meaning that its made up of individuals who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, ethnicity, or heritage

• States

• Nation

• Nation-state

• Irredentism

• Multistate nation

In a __________, the territory occupied by a group who view themselves as a nation is the same as the politically recognized boundaries of the state they call their own. (Think Iceland or Japan)

• Nation-State

• nation

• State

• Multistate nation

• Multinational State

A________ consists of people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country.

• Multistate nation

• Irredentism

• City State

• Urban State

• Multinational state

When European powers colonized the continent of Africa for natural resources, political, and economic, power this is known as.......

• Irredentism

• Balkanization

• Scramble for Africa

• African Sovereignty

• United Nation Policy of Colonization

A country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders is a ________

• Multinational state

• Multistate nation

• Nation

• Nation-state

• City state

The term________ describes a people united by culture, language history, and tradition but not possessing a state. (KURDS)

• Stateless nation

• Autonomous nation

• Nation-state

• Multinational state

• Multistate nation

A willingness by one person or a group of people to defend space they claim.

• Geopolitics

• Shelterbelt theory

• Territoriality

• Organic theory

• Rimland theory