The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is gerrymandering?
100
An elongated state in South America
What is Chile?
100
A boundary that coincides with significant features of the natural landscape.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is a Physical Boundary?
100
An area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is a state?
100
The systematic use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or coerce a government into granting its demands.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is Terrorism?
200
An internal organization of a state that places most power in the hands of central government officials
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is a Unitary State?
200
A state that completely surrounds another state
What is a Perforated State?
200
What are the three types of physical boundaries?
What are Desert, Mountain and Water boundaries?
200
A state whose territory corresponds to that occupied by a particular ethnicity.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is a nation state?
200
The most dramatic terrorist attack against the United States.
What is September 11, 2001, Attacks
300
A country that is run according to the interests of the ruler rather than people.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is an Autocracy?
300
A state where the distance from the center to any boundary doesn't vary significantly.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is a Compact State?
300
What are the two types of boundaries?
Physical and Cultural boundaries.
300
The largest Multinational state
What is Russia?
300
States in the ______ ____ provide support for terrorism in recent years.
What is the Middle East?
400
A country in which citizens elect leaders and can run for office.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is Democracy?
400
What type of state is similar to a compact state but has a large extension.
What is a Prorupted State.
400
Geometric and Ethnic boundaries are types of _______ boundaries?
What is a Cultural Boundary?
400
An ethnicity divided into two states.
What is Korea?
400
A major terrorist group that is not a single unified organization
What is the Al-Qaeda?
500
The concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves.
Source: James M. Rubenstein's "The Cultural Landscape"
What is Self Determination?
500
What are the disadvantages of a Landlocked state?
The state does not have a direct outlet to the sea so they can not facilitate international trade. Also the state will have to make agreements with another state to use their port to import and export goods.
500
The zone where no state exercises complete control, which used to separate states like boundaries today.
What is a frontier?
500
What were the first states to evolve in Mesopotamia named.
What is a city-state?
500
The two major providers for finances and materials for terrorists.