APHUG Unit 4 Vocabulary

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

• Political geography

• Cartography
• Astronomy
• Geopolitics

a politically organized independent territory with a government, defined borders, and a permanent population; a country

• state
• country
• nation

• nation-state

the right of a government to control and defend its territory and determine what happens within its borders

• Monarchy
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Sovereignty

a cultural entity made up of people who have forged a common identity through a shared language, religion, heritage, or ethnicity--often all four of these

• A nation
• A community
• A clan
• A tribe

a politically organized and recognized territory composed of a group of people who consider themselves to be a nation

• Country
• Continent
• Nation-state

• State

people who share a cultural or ethnic background but live in more than one country

• nation

• state

• multinational state

• multistate nation

attempts by a state to acquire territories in neighboring states inhabited by people of the same nation

• Irredentism
• Colonialism
• Expansionism
• Nationalism

a country with various ethnicities and cultures living inside its borders

• multinational state

• country

• multistate nation

• stateless nation

having authority to govern territories independently of the national government; for example, by having a separate currency

• self-determination

• autonomous/semi-autonomous

• colonialism

• imperialism

a people united by culture, language, history, and tradition, but not possessing a state

• multistate nation

• stateless nation

• nation-state

• nation