Political Entities
This has defined territories, permanent population, a functional government and sovereignty
What is a state?
In 1884, European powers gathered to divide up the continent of Africa and establish borders.
What is the Berlin Conference?
The control and influence over a specific geographic space.
What is Territoriality?
The Four Corners Monument marks the point where the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet due to strait borders.
What is a Geometric Boundary?
The official population count done every 10 years.
What is the Census?
A group of people with a common identity through shared cultural traits such as language, religion, ethnicity, and heritage
What is a nation?
This treaty was signed to end WWl. It redrew boundaries in Europe and Southwest Asia.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Control over people, land and resources
What is Political Power?
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas gives a state special rights over the exploration and use of maritime resources 200 nautical miles from their shore.
What is the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ)?
In a Presidential Election, candidates need 270 out of 538 total votes to win the majority.
What is the Electoral College?
Although no 'true' examples exist, Japan is the closest.
What is a nation-state?
The right or desire for a nation, or group of people, to govern themselves.
What is self-determination?
The practice of a more developed country to control or influence a less developed country directly and/or indirectly by economic means.
What is neocolonialism?
The fence that separates your yard from your neighbors yard.
What is a demarcated Boundary?
Clustering like-minded voters in a single district, thereby allowing the other party to win the remaining districts.
What is Packing?
The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in West Asia and while there have been many attempts to obtain nation-state status, they have not yet achieved their goal.
What is a stateless nation?
What is the Fall of the Soviet Union?
The strait of Hormuz and the Strait of Malacca.
What are Choke Points?
Conflicts between China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam over the South China Sea, which contains some of the most promising oil and gas sources.
What is an Allocational Dispute?
Process in which U.S. House of Representative seats are re-allocated to different states based off of population change.
What is Reapportionment?
Native American Indian Reservations and Tribal Lands exist within the United States, however, they are given partial authority to govern independently.
What is a semi-autonomous region?
Throughout Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia and Latin America, resistance to colonial power and political self-determination gained momentum and new countries were formed out of previous colonial empires.
What are Independence Movements?
The variety of ethnicities, religions and languages in the Balkan Peninsula caused instability within the region due to the overlapping political power between global powers.
What is a shatterbelt?
States may set laws and regulate the passage of ships 12 nautical miles form their shore.
What are Territorial Waters?
After the Civil War, the political party in power split the Dakota Territory into two states instead of one, giving each new state 3 electoral votes.
What is Gerrymandering?