Shapes of States
Nationalism & Political Identity
Agricultural Origins & Revolutions
Gerrymandering
Introduction to Political Geography
Developments of Agriculture (2nd & 3rd Revolutions)
100
Long, narrow state shape; difficult to defend and communicate.
What is Elongated State?
100
Loyalty to and belief in the superiority of one’s nation
What is Nationalism?
100
Deliberate modification of Earth’s surface to grow crops/raise animals
What is Agriculture?
100
Drawing districts to favor a political party.
What is Gerrymandering?
100
Study of how humans organize Earth politically
What is Political Geography?
100
Consolidation of farms\ in England.
What is Enclosure Movement?
200
State split into multiple pieces; diverse resources but hard to unify.
What is Fragmented State?
200
Love and loyalty toward one’s country; more inclusive
What is Patriotism?
200
Region where major crops first developed (ex. SW Asia: barley, wheat).
What is Crop Hearth?
200
Concentrating opposing voters into few districts
What is Packing?
200
Political unit with territory, population, government, and sovereignty.
What is a State?
200
Changing crops each season to renew soil
What is Crop Rotation?
300
Borders nearly equidistant from the center; efficient for governance.
What is Compact State?
300
Country containing multiple nationalities.
What is Multinational State?
300
Reproduction by cloning plants (cuttings, roots).
What is Vegetative Planting ?
300
Splitting voters to weaken their influence
What is Cracking?
300
Full political control without outside interference
What is Sovereignty?
300
Breeding livestock for specific traits
What is Selective Breeding?
400
A state with an extended arm protruding from the main territory.
What is Prorupted State ?
400
A cultural group without its own sovereign territory.
What is Nationless State?
400
Reproduction through planting seeds
What is Seed Agriculture?
400
Redrawing district boundaries after the census.
What is Redistricting?
400
When two or more states claim the same area
What is Sovereignty Dispute?
400
Replacement of animals with machines
What is Mechanization?
500
A state that completely surrounds another.
What is Perforated State
500
Transfer of power from central to regional/local governments.
What is Devolution?
500
Channeling water to fields.
What is Irrigation?
500
Districts must have an equal population
What is One Person, One Vote?
500
Cultural group with common heritage.
What is Nation?
500
Increased wheat harvesting speed
What is Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper
600
State with no direct ocean access; dependent on neighbors for trade.
what is Landlocked State?
600
Group seeking to break away and form an independent state.
What is Separatist Movement?
600
Transition from hunting-gathering to farming
What is First Agricultural Revolution?
600
One elected official represents each district.
What is Winner-Take-All System?
600
State with a largely uniform cultural identity.
What is Nation-State?
700
Very small state with small population and area.
What is Very small state with small population and area?
700
Who made American gothic?
Who is Grant Wood
700
Mechanization, improved tools, higher yields
What is Second Agricultural Revolution?
700
Land under jurisdiction but not fully part of the state.
What is Territory?
800
Global transfer of crops, animals, diseases after 1492
What is Columbian Exchange
800
Zone where no state has complete control
What is Frontier?
900
HYVs, fertilizers, pesticides, increased production, 1960s.
What is Green Revolution?
900
“Land belonging to no one.”
Who was Terra Nullius?
1000
Seeds bred for high production
What is HYV (High Yield Varieties)?
1100
Genetically modified organism
What is GMO?
1200
Uses natural processes, avoids synthetic chemicals
What is Organic Farming?
1300
Slash-and-burn, r?otating fields (LDC)
What is Shifting Cultivation?
1400
Herding animals in arid climates.
What is Pastoral Nomadism?
1500
Seasonal movement of livestock.
What is Transhumance?