Unit 4-Chapter 8

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