Chapter 9 Vocabulary (APHG)

The study of the ways in which the world is organized as a reflection of the power different groups hold over territory.

• political geography

• territoriality

• state

• sovereignty

A political unit with territorial boundaries (territoriality), a permanent population, sovereign government, and a working economy.

-Governments are administered by institutions like bureaucracies, legislatures, and judicial systems.

-These institutions exist beyond the lifetime of a single political leader

What is this?

• Multistate Nation

• Multinational State

• Nation

• State

• Stateless Nation

The right to control the social, political, and economic matters within a territory. What is this?

• Sovereignty

• Self-determination

• Nationalism

• Balkanization

A group of people who share a common identity. Common identity may be based on ethnicity, language, religion, and/or a shared history .

-Nationality – the identity of a group who share legal attachment and personal allegiance to a particular state. This may or may not equate to an ethnicity.

What is this?

• Multistate Nation

• Multinational State

• Nation

• State

• Stateless Nation

A nation of people in possession of their own state. What is this?

• Nation-state

• Supranationalism

• State

• Nationalism

A nation of people that have their own state, but some nationals live in other states What is this?

• Multistate Nation

• Multinational State

• Nation

• State

• Stateless Nation

Those states that have multiple nations of people living within their boundaries. What is this?

• Multistate Nation

• Multinational State

• Nation

• State

When a nation of people attempts to gain control of a territory that they have a historical relationship to justified by multistate nations and often fueled by nationalism. What is this?

• Irredentism

• Frontier

• Geometric Boundary

• Gerrymandering

Areas that have a degree of autonomy from the central government(freedom from an external authority). Most often results in the changing of unitary to federal governmental structure.

What is this?

• Nation

• Unitary Government

• Autonomous Region

• State

Describing a region that is given partial authority to govern its territories independently from the national government.

• state

• nation-state

• autonomous region

• semiautonomous region