Unit 4 EXAM REVIEW: Political Organization of Space

Which of the following is NOT part of the definition of a state?

• a. a formal region

• b. a common ethnicity

• c. control over internal affairs

• d. control over external affairs

• e. sovereignty

SORT

Groups:

(a) NATION-STATE

,

(b) MULTINATIONAL STATE

,

(c) MULTISTATE NATION

• CANADA

• JAPAN

• IRISH

• PORTUGAL

• KOREA

• SWITZERLAND

• NIGERIA

• ICELAND

• BELGIUM

SORT

Groups:

(a) STATELESS NATIONS

,

(b) AUTONOMOUS REGIONS

,

(c) SEMIAUTONOMOUS REGIONS

• AMERICAN INDIAN RESERVATIONS

• NUNAVUT

• BASQUE

• KURDS

• HONG KONG

• SOME REGIONS IN RUSSIA

​ (a)   is the connection of people to their culture and their land, while ​ (b)   is the recognized control an area has over their people and land

• TERRITORIALITY
• SOVEREIGNTY

MATCH THE TERMS THAT EXPLAIN THE CONTROL EUROPE HAD OVER OTHER REGIONS

a

b

c

BERLIN CONFERENCE

IMPERIALISM

COLONIALISM

Match the following

• NATIONALISM

• economic system that outlined how mother countries in Europe controlled the trade of their colonies

• MISSIONARY SPIRIT

• power and prestige of European powers competing to gain colonies

• MERCANTILISM

• belief that Europeans must spread Christianity to other parts of the world led to diffusion to the Americas, Africa, and Asia

MATCH TO THE MOST RECENT COLONIAL OWNER

Groups:

(a) BRITAIN

,

(b) FRANCE

,

(c) SPAIN

,

(d) PORTUGAL

• ARGENTINA

• MOST OF LATIN AMERICA

• MEXICO

• VIETNAM, CAMBODIA, LAOS

• MOST OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

• AUSTRALIA & NZ

• CANADA

• BRAZIL

• MOST OF EAST AFRICA

• WESTERN AFRICA

• NIGERIA

• INDIA & SOUTH ASIA

• CUBA

• HAITI

MATCH TO THE MOST RECENT COLONIAL OWNER PART 2

Groups:

(a) USA

,

(b) NETHERLANDS

,

(c) BELGIUM

• PHILIPPINES

• CONGO/CENTRAL AFRICA

• INDONESIA

Match the following

• BALKANIZATION

• breaking up of a country, often violently, along ethnic lines

• DEPENDENCIES

• new countries that were former colonies are still economically dependent & exploited by former colonizers

• SHATTERBELT

• unstable area caught b/w competing external forces (SE Asia, Korea during Cold War)

• IRREDENTISM

• mostly islands - still under control of other countries

• NEOCOLONIALISM

• reclaiming territories considered historically or ethnically part of a nation, even if they are currently under the control of another state

TYPES OF BOUDARIES

Groups:

(a) PHYSICAL/NATURAL

,

(b) CONSEQUENT/CULTURAL

,

(c) GEOMETRIC

• Chile/Argentina

• straight lines

• lake

• language

• lacks any natural features for boundaries

• ethnicity

• Mexico/USA

• Czechia/Slovakia

• rivers

• mountain range

• imposed by colonial/imperial powers

• North Africa

• Southwest Asia

• Ireland/Northern Ireland

• religion