an area organized into a political unit and ruled by an established government that has control over its internal and foreign affairs.
What is a state?
100
The distance from the center to the boundary is not highly significant.
What is Compact?
100
The effort by one country to establish settlements in a territory and to impose it’s political, economic, and cultural principles. The area is Uninhabited.
What is Colonialism?
100
A zone where no state exercises political control
What is Frontiers?
100
A territory legally tied to a sovereign state rather than being completely independent. Colonies tend to be controlled in places such as the military, foreign policy, and sometimes internal affairs.
What is Colony?
200
A sovereign state that comprises a town and its surrounding countryside.
What is a city-state?
200
Have long and narrow shapes. (Chile, Malawi)
What is Elongated?
200
The "G" for the promotion of Christianity.
What is "God"?
200
The process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power
What is Gerrymandering?
200
The use of violence by a group in order to intimidate a population or a government into granting their demands.
What is Terrorism?
300
A state's independence from control of the state’s internal affairs by other states.
What is sovereignty?
300
Compact state with an extensive projection for a reason. (Congo)
What is Prorupted?
300
Control of a territory already occupied and organized by an indigenous society
What is Imperialism?
300
Boundaries coinciding on ethnicity, language, or religion differences
What is Cultural Boundaries?
300
47 different states agreeing to provide a legal framework for managing Antarctica and allowing states to establish research stations, but no military stations
What is the "Antarctic Treaty"?
400
A state lacking direct outlet to the sea due to being surrounding by other states.
What is a landlocked state?
400
A state that completely surrounds a different state. (South Africa and Lesotho)
What is Perforated?
400
The "G" for extracting useful resources
What is "Gold"?
400
Boundaries coinciding with significant features of the natural landscape.
What is Physical Boundaries?
400
States providing sanctuary, weapons, planning attacks
What is State Support for Terrorists?
500
A giant cluster of 50 different subdivisions of one giant state.
What is the United States?
500
A state that has several discontinuous pieces of territory. (Indonesia)
What is Fragmented?
500
The "G" for the establishment of power through numerous colonies
What is "Glory"
500
A state that places most power in the hands of the central government officials
What is Unitary State?
500
A state that allocates strong power to units of local government within the state