Ch. 9 AMSCO Vocab

Natural barriers between areas such as oceans, deserts, and mountains

• Political boundaries
• Geographical boundaries

• Cultural barriers
• Economic divisions

Divide people according to some cultural division, such as language, religion, or ethnicity

• Antecedent boundary

• Cultural boundary

• Physical boundary

• Superimposed boundary

This type of boundary preceded the development of the cultural landscape

• Political boundary
• Economic boundary
• Antecedent boundary

• Social boundary

This boundary is typically created while the cultural landscape is evolving and is subject to change over time

• Subsequent boundary

• Political boundary
• Natural boundary
• Economic boundary

This type of boundary is drawn by outside powers and may have ignored existing cultural patterns

• Physical boundary

• Superimposed boundary

• Antecedent boundary

• Cultural boundary

This is a boundary that has been abandoned for political purposes, but evidence of it still exists on the landscape

• Geographical boundary

• Relic boundary

• Antecedent boundary

• Superimposed boundary

A straight line or arc drawn by people that does not closely follow any physical feature

• Geometric boundary

• Consequent boundary

• Physical boundary

• Superimposed boundary

A type of subsequent border that takes into account already-existing cultural or physical landscapes

• natural boundary
• consequent boundary
• arbitrary boundary
• geometric boundary

This boundary is established by a legal document, such as a treaty, that divides one entity form another

• Boundary line
• Division boundary

• Defined boundary

• Delimited boundary

A type of expansionism when one country seeks to annex territory where it has cultural ties to part of the population or historical claims to the land

• Colonialism
• Irredentism
• Nationalism
• Imperialism