APHG Unit 4 Quiz: 4.1 - 4.5

A term encompassing all the citizens of a state. Most definitions refer to a tightly knit group of people possessing bonds of language, ethnicity, religion, and other shared cultural attributes...homogeneity.

• State

• Nation

• multi-state nation

• multinational state

A recognized member of the modern state possessing formal sovereignty and occupied by a people who see themselves as a single, united nation.

• multi-state nation

• multinational state

• nation-state

• Nation

A principle of international relations that holds that final authority over social, economic, and political matters within a boder should rest with the legitimate rulers of independent states...Hint: USA Territories such as Puerto Rico are not this...

• Supranationalism

• Unitary states

• sovereignty

• Shatterbelt Regions

the process by which a country determines its own independence and forms its own allegiances and government. FREEDOM

• Neocolonialism

• nation-state

• self-determination

• Irredentism

a region caught between stronger colliding external cultural-political forces, under persistent stress, and often fragmented by aggressive rivals...region of conflict many times becauses of conflicted borders.

• Sovereignty

• shatterbelt

• Terrorism

• Legitimacy

a former/historical boundary line that is still discernible and marked by some cultural landscape features, examples include the Berlin Wall or the Great Wall of China

• Subsequent Boundary

• relic boundary

• superimposed boundary

• Maritime Boundaries

a boundary line placed over and ignoring an existing cultural pattern usually by former imperialistic or colonial influences

• subsequent boundary,

• superimposed boundary

• geometric boundary

• antecedent boundary

a boundary line that coincides with some cultural divide, such as religion or language

• superimposed boundary

• relic boundary

• demarcated boundary

• consequent boundary

A boundary marked by some visible means on the ground. Examples: Signs, wall posts, fences, etc.

• geometric boundary

• demarcation line

• superimposed boundary

• Devolution

an area in which treaties or agreements between nations, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities or personnel. Hint: the border between North & South Korea

• delimited boundary

• demilitarized zone

• demarcated boundary

• antecedent boundary