Unit 4-Chapter 8
Across
- 3. an internal organization of a state that allocates most powers to units of local government
- 6. an internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
- 8. a zone separating two states in which neither state exercises political control
- 11. the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
- 14. a country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than the people
- 16. the concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves
- 20. an invisible line that marks the extent of a state's territory
- 21. a country that is not fully democratic or fully autocratic, but rather displays a mix of the two types
- 22. ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states
- 23. a state that does not have a direct outlet to the sea
- 24. a state that contains more than one ethnicity
- 25. a state in which the distance from the center to any boundary does not vary significantly
- 26. a country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office
Down
- 1. a state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity that has been transformed into a nationality
- 2. an attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory
- 4. a state with a long, narrow shape
- 5. a territory that is legally tied to a sovereign state rather than completely independent
- 7. a state that encompasses a very small land area
- 9. a condition of roughly equal strength between opposing countries or alliances of countries
- 10. a state that completely surrounds another one
- 12. a state that contains two or more ethnic groups with traditions of self-determination that agree to coexist peacefully by recognizing each other as distinct nationalities
- 13. a state that includes several discontinuous pieces of territory
- 15. the systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a government into granting its demands
- 17. an otherwise compact state with a large projecting extension
- 18. an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs
- 19. a sovereign state comprising a city and its immediately surrounding countryside