when one state absorbs a territoryWhat is annexation
200
What is a buffer state?
a state in between a core and peripheral state
200
Name 2 countries that the nation Kurdistan spans
Turkey,Iran,Azerbaijan,Syria,Iraq,Armenia Name 2 countries that the nation Kurdistan spans
200
What is a Multinational State?
A state with more than one nation inside its borders.
200
Name 3 countries that colonized between 1550 and 1950
Great britain, France, Spain, Portugal, netherlands, Belgium, Italy, turkey, Russia, Japan, Denmark
200
What is theocracy
A system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god
300
What is gerrymandering?
manipulating a congressional district to recieve certian results
300
Where is Nanavut?
Northern Canada
300
What is a Minority-Majority District?
A congressional district with a majority of minority occupants.
300
Is the Heartland theory from the German School of Geopolitics, or the American/British school of geopolitics.
American/British School of geopolitics
300
What is the Iron Curtain
The Western front of the old U.S.S.R.
400
What is manifest destiny?
a belief that it was an americans duty to settle the west
400
name all the countries that aren't part of the U.N.
Taiwan, Greenland,Western Sahara, French Guiana
400
What is a physical-political boundary?An agreed-upon boundary that follows a physical landscape feature.
An agreed-upon boundary that follows a physical landscape feature.
400
What is Shari'a Law?
A muslim Code of Laws
400
What is an Exclusive Economic Zone
The coastal water and sea bed around a country's shores, to which it claims exclusive rights for fishing, oil exploration, etc.
500
What is irredentism?
the doctrine that irredenta (a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another) should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related
(a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another)
Fill in the blanks for Mackinder's Heartland theory
a. Who rules ____ ______ commands the Heartland
b. Who rules the Heartland commands the _____ ______
c. Who rules the World Island commands the _____
a. East Europe b. World Island c. World
a. East Europe b. World Island c. World
500
What AP Human Geo topic does Georges Pierre Seurat's painting Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte relate to? Hint: starts with the letter S.Scale.