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| A state is an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs. |
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| A country with its own nationality and land. |
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| Sovereignty means independence from control of its internal affairs by other states. |
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| What has happened to the number of soveign states in the world since 1960? |
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| . What is gerrymandering? |
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| Gerrymandering is the process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power. |
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| What is a good example of a nation divided between more than one state? |
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| What is the world's largest state? |
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| A nation-state is a state with very small land areas with its own sovereign rule. |
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| Where did the first widespread use of a nation-state concept occur? |
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| In the time of Ancient Mesopotamia. |
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| A colony is a territory that is legally tied to a soverign state rather than being complete independent. |
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| What is a city-state? Give an example. |
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| A city-state is a sovereign state that comprises a town and the surrounding countryside. Monaco. |
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| What is the only large land mass not part of a sovereign state? |
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| What were the motives of European states in establishing colonies? |
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| -To promote Christianity -To extract useful resouces and to serve as captive markets for their products -To establish relative power through the number of their colonies. |
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| What is imperialism? Colonialism? |
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| Imperialism is control of terrytory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society. Colonialism is the effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles on that territory. |
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| Describe the British empire by the year 1900. |
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| It was the largest colonial empire. |
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| Describe what is used to separate states or create boundaries. |
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| -Physical features of a region. (River,etc.) -Cultural dividers of region. (Language, etc.) |
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| What creates the boundary between the U.S. and Canada? |
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| Rounded countries with a central capital city |
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| What is a prorupted state? |
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| Compact States with a large projecting extention |
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| What is an elongated state? |
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| What is a fragmented state? |
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| A state that is divided into several discontinuous pieces of territory |
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| What is a perforated state? |
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| States that completely surround other states |
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| What are landlocked states? |
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| States that lack access to the ocean or sea |
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| A frontier is a zone where no state exercises complete political control. |
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