APHUG Unit 4 Vocab Quiz

What is self-determination?

• the right to choose a sovereign government without external influence

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What defines a nation?

• has a common cultural heritage, unifying set of beliefs and values, traditional claim to a particular space as their homeland, desire for self-rule

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What is a centrifugal force?

• a factor that creates divisions among the population of a state

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What is nationalism?

• a nation’s desire to create and maintain a state of its own; loyalty and devotion to one’s nation, sometimes to an extreme degree

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What is a multinational state?

• a country that contains more than one nation

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What does territoriality refer to?

• the willingness by a person or group to defend the space they claim as their own

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What is a state?

• has a defined boundary, contains a permanent population, maintains sovereignty over its domestic and international affairs, is recognized by other countries; formal term for a country

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What is neocolonialism?

• when developed states indirectly exert political, economic, and/or cultural control over developing states

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What is a multi-state nation?

• when a nation has a state of its own, but stretches across the borders of one or more other states

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What is decolonization?

• the process by which indigenous people reclaim sovereignty over their territory

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