Political Geography AP Hug Vocabulary
Across
- 2. world order in which one state is in position of utmost power
- 5. boundaries that follow a feature in the natural landscape
- 8. a nation that stretches across borders and states
- 13. a process by which a state is moving to solidify control over its territory
- 16. process by which districts are moved according to population shifts so that each encompasses around the same number of people
- 18. where there is higher education, salaries, and more technology
- 22. dispute over resource distribution dictated by a boundary
- 25. the process of placing a price on a good/service/idea and then buying/selling/trading it
- 28. the idea that to understand any state one must understand its spatial/functional relationships within the world economy
- 29. process by which territories come into being
- 31. representation at a certain level
- 33. politically organized territory with permanent population, defined territory, and government
- 34. politically organized area in which nation and state occupy the same space
- 35. highly centralized states
- 36. a government's right to control its territory politically & militarily
- 39. a state with more than one nation inside its borders
- 40. the right of a state to defend its sovereign territory from incursion by other states
- 42. a vertical plane dividing one state from another
- 43. where there is lower education, salaries, and less developed technology
- 44. dispute over the function of a border
- 46. boundary that predates development of states
- 47. study of political organization of the world
- 48. nations that do not have a state
Down
- 1. dispute focusing on legal language of boundary agreement
- 3. where there is a mix of high class/low class living standards
- 4. redistricting for advantage
- 6. process by which majorities and minorities are distributed across districts to ensure majority control
- 7. dispute focusing on delimitation and demarcation of a boundary
- 9. boundary that is drawn by outsiders without reference to cultural patterns
- 10. a group of people who think of themselves as one based on shared culture/history and seek political-territorial autonomy
- 11. political power less rooted in the power of the territorial state
- 12. boundaries drawn using grid systems
- 14. belief that whoever controls Eurasia controls the world
- 15. event marking the formal beginning of the modern state system in Europe
- 17. forces within a state that divide the people
- 19. forces within a state that unify the people
- 20. 3+ state association that forms an administrative structure for mutual benefit/pursuit of shared goals
- 21. area of land controlled by a nation
- 23. the idea that the nation (people) is the ultimate sovereign
- 24. system wherein each representative is elected from a territorially defined district
- 25. entities own land and produce goods/services that are exchanged for profit
- 26. packed districts in which a majority of the population is from the minority
- 27. rule by an autonomous power over a subordinate and alien people and place
- 30. boundary that evolves with cultural landscape
- 32. intellectuals construct ideas about geographical circumstance which influence political behaviors which in turn influence later interpretations and ideas
- 37. states where relative authority is given to substates
- 38. the movement of power downwards from the central governments within the state
- 41. protectionist European trade system during the colonial era
- 45. boundary that has ceased to function but has left an impact on the cultural landscape