Unit 4 - Main Topics
Imperialism
A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically.
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
Subsistence Farming
Agriculture designed primarily to provide food for direct consumption by the farmer and the farmer's family.
First Agricultural Revolution
The start of farming through root/seed crops.
Demarcate
Placing a physical object on the border.
Federal System
government systems that divide the powers between the national government and state or provincial governments
Centripetal Force
An attitude that tends to unify people and enhance support for a state
Shifting Cultivation
A form of subsistence agriculture in which people shift activity from one field to another; each field is used for crops for a relatively few years and left fallow for a relatively long period.
GMOs
Foods that are mostly products of organisms that have their genes altered in a laboratory for specific purposes, such as disease resistance
Geometric Boundary
Type of boundary that is a straight line following longitude or latitude.
Supranationalism
Organization of three or more states to promote shared objectives.
Nation-State
A country who's population share a common identity.
Desertification
Degradation of land, especially in semiarid areas, primarily because of human actions like excessive crop planting, animal grazing, and tree cutting.
The system of land use for rural land describes how land outside a city is organized for agricultural practices.
Definitional Boundary Dispute
A disagreement over the possession/control of land between two or more states based off wording in a treaty.
Neocolonialism
When a country seeks to dominate another country through private business or economic practices at the state level.
Shatterbelt
an area of instability between regions with opposing political and cultural values
Mediterranean Agriculture
An agricultural system practiced in the Mediterranean style climates of Western Europe, California, and portions of Chile and Australia, in which diverse specialty crops such as grapes, avocados, olives, and a host of nuts, fruits, and vegetables comprise profitable agricultural operations
Transhumance
The seasonal migration of livestock between mountains and lowland pastures.
Relic Boundary
one that no longer functions but can still be detected on the cultural landscape
Devolution
The movement of power from a central government to regional/local governments.
Gerrymandering
Process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power.
Capital Intensive Agriculture
Form of agriculture that uses mechanical goods such as machinery, tools, vehicles, and facilities to produce large amounts of agricultural goods- a process requiring very little human labor
Crop Rotation
The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil
Superimposed Boundary
a boundary that has been imposed on an area by an outside or conquering power. This boundary ignores the cultural organizations on this landscape.