AP Human Geography Unit 4 Vocabulary

the power of a political unit, or government, to rule over its own affairs

• Sovereignty

• State

• Nation

• Nation-State

states without a territory connected to an ocean

• Subsequent boundary

• Ethnographic

• Superimposed boundary

• Landlocked states

a force that tends to divide people, break states apart, or even prevent states from forming

• Multi State nation

• Nationalism

• Centripetal force

• Centrifugal force

a force that helps unify people within a country

• Multi State nation

• Nationalism

• Centripetal force

• Centrifugal force

used claims to form state boundaries in Africa. These boundaries showed little regard to the existing ethno-linguistic, cultural, ans political boundaries

• Imperialism

• Colonialism

• Self-determination

• Berlin Conference

occurs when a nation has a state of its own but stretches across borders of other states.

• Multi State nation

• Nationalism

• Centripetal force

• Centrifugal force

the process in which one or more regions are given increased autonomy by the central political unit

• Devolution

• Geopolitics

• Territoriality

• Neocolonialism

boundaries that divide people according to some cultural division such as language, religion, or ethnicity

• Choke point

• Physical geographic boundaries

• Cultural boundaries

• Antecedent boundary

was signed between 1973 and 1982 by more than 150 countries that defined four zones (territorial sea, contiguous zone, exclusive economic zone (EEZ), and high seas) for addressing  water boundaries systematically

• Exclaves

• Political enclaves

• Shatterbelt

• United Nations Convention on the the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS)

a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent or terror - inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.

• Ethnic cleansing

• Terrorism

• Irredentism

• Autonomous regions