Unit 4 Study Guide Human Geography

Define Annexation

• The formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

• A foreign policy based on a consideration of the strategic locations or products of other lands.

• Domination of one culture over another by a deliberate policy that encourages cultural assimilation of neighboring foreign peoples or by economic or technological superiority.

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

What does “sovereign” mean?

•  One possessing or held to possess supreme political power.

• A large political unit that has a defined boundary and a permanent population.

• People who have power over their own domestic and international affairs.

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

What is a state?

• Are nationalities without a recognized home country. Some examples are the Kurds and the Palestinians.

• An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government with control over its internal and foreign affairs.

•   A large political unit that has a defined boundary and a permanent population.

• The administrative action and concept in international law relating to the forcible acquisition of one state's territory by another state.

Define sovereign state

• People who have power over their own domestic and international affairs.

•  One's own country.

• A body of international law governing the rights and duties of states in maritime environments. It concerns matters such as navigational rights, sea mineral claims, and coastal waters jurisdiction.

•  A principal administrative division of certain countries or empires.

The term of ones own country defines as?

• Nation

• Sovereignty

• International

• Domestic

What are sovereign state examples?

• Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Japan 

• Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Japan 

• Mexico, Italy, France, United States

• Russia, United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

What is the social contract theory and whos theory is this?

• The view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract; Benjamin Franklin

• The view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract; John Lock

• A contract about nationalities without a recognized home country. Some examples are the Kurds and the Palestinians; John Locke

• They are nationalities without a recognized home country. Some examples are the Kurds and the Palestinians; Benjamin Franklin

Define Popular Sovereignty

• Countries made up of one nationality, such as Iceland and Japan.

•  The authority of a state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people.

• Nationalities that spread among many states.

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

What country's sovereignty is being challenged by China?

• Taiwan

• Japan

• India

• United States

There are several states that have their sovereignty challenged on a global or local scale

Example: